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Interesting. Here I am thinking one of the best things about HN is how the usernames being a lighter shade makes them easy to ignore entirely and focus only on
by causi 4y ago
Interesting. Here I am thinking one of the best things about HN is how the usernames being a lighter shade makes them easy to ignore entirely and focus only on what's being said instead of the speaker.
- darkerside 4y agoThat's what makes it so awesome when you start recognizing the same username on comments where you subconsciously bother to check the name because it was so interesting
- layer8 4y ago> check the name because [the comment] was so interesting I wonder how many people have that reflex. I usually only notice usernames when mentioned by others.
- pohl 4y agoI would hope most people. I can't imagine being so incurious that I'd read an awesome comment and not wonder who wrote it.
- layer8 4y agoWhy should it matter who wrote it?
- jefftk 4y agoOne big reason I care about who wrote things is expertise. Ex: I've consistently seen informed and sensible security-related commentary from tptacek, so I would pay more attention to security-related advice with his name on it than if it was a name I didn't recognize.
- moremetadata 4y ago[flagged]
- pohl 4y agoI guess it wouldn't if one didn't value people. YMMV, but I think people are kind of cool — so if I hear a great song I want to know who the artist was. It helps me build a mental model of what I might be able to expect from them. I'm kind of shocked that this might not be obvious to everyone, TBH.
- darkerside 4y agoWhen you've been on the site 10 years, I guess you start to notice more patterns. You'll get there, young buck. ;)
- yamtaddle 4y agoOn the contrary, it makes it harder to immediate spot and ignore shitposters or people who consistently make really stupid posts on certain kinds of thread, of which sort there are several very active posters. It's a big part of why a certain kind of trolly posting thrives on HN in a way that it doesn't some other places with sigs or user images or otherwise more-prominent user ID. My kingdom for an ignore-list.
- rondini 4y agoHN is an accessibility nightmare thanks to the low contrast of so many critical UI elements
- causi 4y agoYou can fix that with an extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast/djcfdncoelnlbldjfhinnjlhdjlikmph?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast/djcf...