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What's up recently with all these pubescent posts - what's your age/hobby/dick size, etc? What's the goal of this post? Yeah we know comments on this site have
by Markoff 4y ago
What's up recently with all these pubescent posts - what's your age/hobby/dick size, etc?
What's the goal of this post? Yeah we know comments on this site have decent quality (if you don't express opinion against HN hive, which is usually aligned with The Current Thing, but they try to be less extreme about promoting it, but anonymously they will kill you with downvotes), but even if you find 2-3 people who share your interests what you gonna do with that information? You can't build some distaste section here and it won't be enough to move elsewhere and if you tried already you would have find forum on your favorite topic.
Yes, on one hand I liked when most of the internet felt like echo chamber of IT guys (basically still preserved on HN), on the other hand I welcome diversity, it's just shame especially in recent years people became extremely polarized, which is not that big of an deal, if one side wasn't heavily promoted by Big Tech which has no problem to keep opinions wishing death to opponents up, while order side was straight up banned under blanket term misinformation.
I have no problem with opponents with completely opposite opinions, what I don't like and see it even here it's despect, calling me or opinion idiotic often without concrete argument, basically just lazy trolling.
edit added: FWIW I miss discussing movies on IMDb, it had huge user base which was dispersed all over internet and r/movies is bad or full of trolls, order subs or sites have way too low user base, while IMDb had people from all fields willing to discuss aspects of movies, now I occasionally check old movies at moviechat or check TMDB discussions, which are pretty dead. Btw I was online already in times of BBS/Fidonet, nice thing about Fido was lack of anonymity so people really couldn't be jerks (obviously it has cons other you can't discuss NDA stuff).
- thinkingemote 4y agoYour comment reads at a really good try at trolling about trolling! It's a lost artform. It's a shame people don't recognise it anymore. Myself included.