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That's JWZ though. When I last explored the tildeverse it was rife with easily triggered precious snowflakes actively searching for reasons to be offended. It

• throwanem 4y ago
  It may be simply that HN commenters, taken in the large, far less frequently have anything nearly so novel or worthwhile to say as the mean participant here believes himself able to contribute. This alone strikes me as sufficient reason both for referrer redirects as a mild but not ineffective deterrent, and also for the general - and generally low - opinion of this site which is held in many other quarters. Prior experience strongly suggests your next move, or someone's, will be to ask why I stay here myself, if I have such a low opinion of the place. The question is pointless, and has two answers. One is for the opportunity to indulge my own love for needless pettifogging and disputation, a flaw in my character I have never managed fully to extirpate. The other is that once in a blue moon, at a rate slightly in excess of that I've seen most other places, someone here does actually say something worth taking seriously. Perhaps this thread will surprise me in that regard.
  • corobo 4y ago
    > a mild but not ineffective deterrent I spent more time trying to find why there was a rickroll than I did on the site itself. Honestly it worked perfectly on me. Snipe the nerds before they can interact with your community. In all serious though I do get it, I'd definitely avoid injecting Reddit and HN into a small community. You're just asking to overload the culture and Eternal September yourself doing that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September