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Hacker News used to be about things that mattered to programmers and startups, etc. Now we are turning into yet another Reddit scream box. This type of article
by coldcode 5y ago
Hacker News used to be about things that mattered to programmers and startups, etc. Now we are turning into yet another Reddit scream box. This type of article does not belong here. The comments keep turning into pointless vitriol.
- coryrc 5y agoIt's always like this on the weekend.
- pl0x 5y ago
- dang 5y ago"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you've been posting a ton of unsubstantive and flamebait comments lately. Would you please stop that? We ban accounts that keep doing it, for what ought to be obvious reasons. Not liking HN, if that's how you're feeling, is not an ok reason to break the rules here.
- dang 5y agoThat's not accurate. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.
- msbarnett 5y agoYeah I'm done with this website. The state of these comments is an absolute embarrassment, this is purely just a misinformation flamewar
- the_only_law 5y agoI wouldn’t even care. The internet always is a shot show when it comes to politics. It’s the absolute arrogance of the community, pretending that they’re above this at just about any other time.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoWhile I agree most of the comments are garbage, this is just one thread and you can leave with the back button. There are hundreds of other non political posts a day