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If you've spent any time on here you know that no one actually clicks the links to read the article. Users need only trust the pages with an orange header.
by brewdad 4y ago
If you've spent any time on here you know that no one actually clicks the links to read the article. Users need only trust the pages with an orange header.
- chupasaurus 4y agoI don't trust orange headers, only blue ones.
- Xorakios 4y agogrin
- permo-w 4y agoI know I don’t but surely some people do perhaps hacker news is merely a conversation prompt aggregator
- rvnx 4y agoHN as a separate entity has practically no value, it could just be reddit.com/r/hackernews and it'd be practically the same.
- permo-w 4y agoreddit doesn’t have dang
- hammyhavoc 4y agoThe thing about Reddit is that it has greater "discoverability" through search, profiles and algorithmic "hot" pages, so communities like that inevitably become swamped with low quality posts. There's a few niche subs that just degenerated into posting photos of purchases that arrived in the mail today instead of actually discussing the use of the tools.
- ghaff 4y agoI mean the upstream comment is basically saying don't trust clicking any links on the Internet--even on a site that presumably weeds out really dodgy stuff quickly. Indeed, not using the Internet is a solid, if rather extreme, security process to follow.
- permo-w 4y agoI wrote it, and that’s not what it’s saying