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If you think Hacker News sucks that bad, you're free to go read reddit and bitch about the users there. This comment is shitty and cynical and you should feel b

by funkah 15y ago

If you think Hacker News sucks that bad, you're free to go read reddit and bitch about the users there. This comment is shitty and cynical and you should feel bad about it.

nodemaker 15y ago
All he is trying to say is that being a hard boiled cynic more often than not hampers your productivity. I totally agree with that.
tptacek 15y ago
Compare: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3Aedw519&sortby=points+desc http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3Ae... to: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3Afunkah&sortby=points+desc&start=0 http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3Af... A superficial cheap shot would be to note that you have to go nine pages into Ed's results to find a comment scored as low as 'funkah's top-scored comment. Less superficial observations follow readily from actually reading the two sets of comments. Veteran status readily accounts for the spectacularly high amount of karma Ed has here. That and name recognition surely biases the score on any given recent Ed comment upwards. But the difference in tone, effort, and craft between Ed's comments and 'funkah's is hard to miss; put more succinctly, the reason Ed has an average comment score of 27 (27!) and 'funkah has an average of 2 is that Ed doesn't write things like "This comment is shitty and cynical and you should feel bad about it." He's more likely to draw an ASCII art picture. I point this out mostly because 15 minutes spent reading the best of Ed on HN is time well spent, and so there you have it: a convenient link off this stupid thread.
- bnegreve 15y ago
  Maybe I am missing your point, but I think that judging comments on the basis of their authors karma is a bad idea.
  - tptacek 15y ago
    If we're talking about my comments, I agree. If we're talking about Ed's, no. I'm not interested in a nerdy argument about whether we should have karma at all.
runjake 15y ago
You must be new here. Check out edw519's profile and comment history. It should provide you with a little more context.

by funkah 15y ago

If you think Hacker News sucks that bad, you're free to go read reddit and bitch about the users there. This comment is shitty and cynical and you should feel bad about it.

nodemaker 15y ago

All he is trying to say is that being a hard boiled cynic more often than not hampers your productivity. I totally agree with that.

tptacek 15y ago

Compare: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3Aedw519&sortby=points+desc http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3Ae... to: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3Afunkah&sortby=points+desc&start=0 http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3Af... A superficial cheap shot would be to note that you have to go nine pages into Ed's results to find a comment scored as low as 'funkah's top-scored comment. Less superficial observations follow readily from actually reading the two sets of comments. Veteran status readily accounts for the spectacularly high amount of karma Ed has here. That and name recognition surely biases the score on any given recent Ed comment upwards. But the difference in tone, effort, and craft between Ed's comments and 'funkah's is hard to miss; put more succinctly, the reason Ed has an average comment score of 27 (27!) and 'funkah has an average of 2 is that Ed doesn't write things like "This comment is shitty and cynical and you should feel bad about it." He's more likely to draw an ASCII art picture. I point this out mostly because 15 minutes spent reading the best of Ed on HN is time well spent, and so there you have it: a convenient link off this stupid thread.

bnegreve 15y ago
Maybe I am missing your point, but I think that judging comments on the basis of their authors karma is a bad idea.
- tptacek 15y ago
  If we're talking about my comments, I agree. If we're talking about Ed's, no. I'm not interested in a nerdy argument about whether we should have karma at all.

runjake 15y ago

You must be new here. Check out edw519's profile and comment history. It should provide you with a little more context.