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Hilarious considering hackernewsians are the normies of the online world.
by MarcelOlsz 4y ago
Hilarious considering hackernewsians are the normies of the online world.
- emsy 4y agoThat’s Reddit. On HN I sometimes find people with niche interests and expertise in all kinds of fields, which I like. It’s also relatively civilized. You don’t need to be a 4-chan edgelord to be not-normie.
- MarcelOlsz 4y agoReddit are the nerds/losers of the online-o-sphere.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoHN broadly participated in the moral panic over lab leak theory being allowed to exist. This place is far more 'normie' than it likes to believe itself to be and is nowhere near as independent thinking as it pats itself on the back for being. But it does exceed Reddit in the percentage of posters who confuse their wealth for wisdom.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoReddit is just HN with lower standards of communication, puns, one word rebuttals, all that stuff is fair game there. Being able to follow cultural norms of the local group is just about the least remarkable thing about any given group of humans. HN is not special.
- 1123581321 4y agoMost people here also belong to other communities and code switch how they write.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoIt is an interesting comment in itself. Does HN ( and other online communities ) have their own peculiar jargon and it is used to identify in-group? I definitely noticed some recurring phrases, but it does not appear to be.. say.. as obvious as 4chan or imgur.
- b3morales 4y agoIt's less jargon and more tone. Whereas a sarcastically snarky retort might fly on most forums, here it's more likely to net you downvotes. But the same content expressed without the sarcasm will be better-received.
- hoseja 4y agoWhat sort of online world are you considering here? Does it include facebook, twitter and reddit? Or do you mean the deep, niche autism-adjacent online world?