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I get my news from quite a few sources. But you're here on a social media site devoted to sharing news, commenting on a news article. Are you not getting your
by klyrs 3y ago
I get my news from quite a few sources. But you're here on a social media site devoted to sharing news, commenting on a news article. Are you not getting your news from social media right here, right now?
What I wrote is entirely true, I didn't say that a threat to call the cops is %100 guarantee to shoot somebody. I said that there's a nonzero probability. SWATting, for example, has killed several people who did nothing wrong.
Personal experience: I've had a gun pulled on me a couple times while un-armed and non-threatening. Most amusing one: got pulled over for expired tabs and had a boffer sword (not even remotely realistic looking, mostly red duct tape) in my back seat.
- slowmovintarget 3y agoThis is a forum, not social media. There's no network nonsense and algorithm pushes here.
- klyrs 3y agoAgree to disagree; forums are social media. Traditional forum software is purely temporal ranking (latest-comment-first) plus pinned posts. HN uses a ranking algorithm based on engagement, plus ads.
- yamtaddle 3y agoI think if you expand it that much, the term's useless. HN lacks a couple things that I'd consider necessary for something to for-sure qualify as "social media": a personalized queue/feed, and some sort of prominent and heavily-used "follow" action. Those are two distinguishing features of the first things I recall the term ever being applied to—as far as I'm aware, the term was coined for that kind of thing. If the "social network" and actions related to it aren't present or aren't central to the experience, I wouldn't call something social media.
- klyrs 3y agoWell, if you define it that way, @ars's assumption is a complete miss, as HN is the only social media that I use.