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Good write up. This site and 4channel are one of the few anti-pattern places to what Google created. The other tragedy from the old Internet - Social network

Good write up. This site and 4channel are one of the few anti-pattern places to what Google created. The other tragedy from the old Internet - Social networking is well and truly dead replaced by Social Advertising/Political Media. There's still a few good old forums around at least. No, not Reddit.

canadianfella 3y ago
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ponderings 3y ago
On HN we are basically farmed for content. A good post leans more towards an informative article but the real kicker is that this "forum" will never cultivate any project. You cant start a topic that aims to write any code, build any hardware or cultivate a data set. Of course people use to blabber randomly in the old days the same way I'm doing here but then you would buy a boat or an old shed and blabber while painting and raking leavs. In general, since the beginning, you cant ask people on the internet to do jack shit for you besides throwing small nuggets of information. It use to be that you could ask people to do real work. Barn raising is the superior technology. You show up, enjoy the process and contribute to the social fabric. Google's war against people interacting goes quite a bit further. Nr 1 was probably killing yt video replies. What world dictator decided it was a good idea to slap rel=nofollow on links in comments? The level of insult where a payment that tiny is still to much to ask for the effort of making a contribution. Then some how, now that it became 100% a waste of time, the quality of comments declined amazingly. 100% a waste of time as in: You cant spend time on it if you have productive things to do. This whole judging people (their homepage) by drive by, zero click thought visitors that google send to the website. Google sends Insane Jack to your homepage, Insane Jack writes a comment that is Insane with a few links that are Insane too. No one did anything wrong here. Insane Jack is just being himself. But then Google judges you by having Insane Jack as a visitor and punishes you permanently for allowing Insane Jack to post links. It's like you had a house guest 10 years ago who said something wrong. You threw him out and told him not to come back but hey! We should continue to blame you for it. Specially the guy who brought the guest to your house should really blame you. The nuking of threaded comments on youtube was also one of those dictatorial acts. If you still thought you had to disagree with something in the video you could press the thumbs down button... What if someone is wrong on the internet but you are not allowed to talk back, is he still wrong? Overall, in hindsight, the world wide web was a pretty bad idea. If you now want to interact with people you call them or send them a message. I'm jokingly doing this while they are in the same room. That way they look up from their screen.

canadianfella 3y ago

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ponderings 3y ago

On HN we are basically farmed for content. A good post leans more towards an informative article but the real kicker is that this "forum" will never cultivate any project. You cant start a topic that aims to write any code, build any hardware or cultivate a data set. Of course people use to blabber randomly in the old days the same way I'm doing here but then you would buy a boat or an old shed and blabber while painting and raking leavs. In general, since the beginning, you cant ask people on the internet to do jack shit for you besides throwing small nuggets of information. It use to be that you could ask people to do real work. Barn raising is the superior technology. You show up, enjoy the process and contribute to the social fabric. Google's war against people interacting goes quite a bit further. Nr 1 was probably killing yt video replies. What world dictator decided it was a good idea to slap rel=nofollow on links in comments? The level of insult where a payment that tiny is still to much to ask for the effort of making a contribution. Then some how, now that it became 100% a waste of time, the quality of comments declined amazingly. 100% a waste of time as in: You cant spend time on it if you have productive things to do. This whole judging people (their homepage) by drive by, zero click thought visitors that google send to the website. Google sends Insane Jack to your homepage, Insane Jack writes a comment that is Insane with a few links that are Insane too. No one did anything wrong here. Insane Jack is just being himself. But then Google judges you by having Insane Jack as a visitor and punishes you permanently for allowing Insane Jack to post links. It's like you had a house guest 10 years ago who said something wrong. You threw him out and told him not to come back but hey! We should continue to blame you for it. Specially the guy who brought the guest to your house should really blame you. The nuking of threaded comments on youtube was also one of those dictatorial acts. If you still thought you had to disagree with something in the video you could press the thumbs down button... What if someone is wrong on the internet but you are not allowed to talk back, is he still wrong? Overall, in hindsight, the world wide web was a pretty bad idea. If you now want to interact with people you call them or send them a message. I'm jokingly doing this while they are in the same room. That way they look up from their screen.