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Hm, I thought this was going to be about Ukraine (UA is its ISO code), not a browser's User-Agent string. I started by reading the comments and found them prett
by dmos62 4y ago
Hm, I thought this was going to be about Ukraine (UA is its ISO code), not a browser's User-Agent string. I started by reading the comments and found them pretty confusing.
- krzyk 4y agoSame for me, but I started with article.
- xnorswap 4y agoUpon opening the article the first line would have informed you otherwise. Instead you felt compelled to instead reply to tell everyone you know that UA is the Ukrainian ISO code. Did you really find the comments "confusing", or is that artistic license? It comes across like, "I couldn't just read the headline and immediately post my reaction to it". You're not the first to have this reaction to HN articles, and you won't be the last, but it's very dismissive of the eclectic nature of HN articles to charge into the comments to discuss something else entirely.
- dmos62 4y agoI did find it confusing and I often read the comments first, because I usually find them more interesting. The first line of the article did inform me otherwise: your insight is accurate. I didn't mean to degrade your forum experience. Edit: by the way, if you want don't want to be dismissive of whatever good there is in HN's community, you'd do well not to presume that others are dishonest ("artisticly licensed"). I spent the morning reading about what's actually happening in Ukraine and saw a post on UA's history (this post) and came in expecting to read more about Ukraine. I experienced amusing confusion and shared that.
- samhw 4y agoHonestly, there's no point interacting with these people. Your comment was a perfectly fine chatty observation about the name of the article. 99.9% of people here aren't robots annoyed at any hint of spontaneity - most of us appreciate the odd unexpected turn that injects something different into the discussion. The ways we miss our lives are life :)
- ascar 4y agoI think you should read the HN guidelines before informing other people about how to post. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Here are a few relevant excerpts: - Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community - Assume good faith. - Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
- xnorswap 4y agoThank you, I believe I have met all those guidelines. I would rather discuss the article than carry on this meta-discussion any further.
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoHN should have descriptive subtitles though, the title of this piece only makes sense once you know the context, and if browser UA isn't of interest then that's wasting clicks. "An analysis and history of web browser UA strings" seems like a good subtitle to me. Also, if someone takes a conversation in a direction in a forum that you don't want to follow then best response is usually 'don't follow'.
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