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Pills? If you're going to live broadcast your own death, make it more interesting than watching paint dry. Sheesh.
by tdavis 18y ago
Pills? If you're going to live broadcast your own death, make it more interesting than watching paint dry. Sheesh.
- comatose_kid 18y agoI'm guessing your day job involves creating content for greeting cards?
- tdavis 18y agoThis reply makes every down-vote worth it. Good show, sir!
- river_styx 18y agoI actually had to scroll up to the banner to make sure I was still on Hacker News and not reddit.
- lacker 18y agoActually he's a cofounder of ticketstumbler.
- dbrush 18y agoWhich makes his comment even more confounding.
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- jfarmer 18y agoSeriously?
- smoody 18y agomemo to self: stop using ticketstumbler.com
- mrtron 18y agoThere was an additional cheap comment from another ticketstumbler founder that has since been removed showing a similar sentiment, mocking the Justin.tv statement.
- jrockway 18y agoNo offense, but this brings new meaning to the expression "OH NOES". I mean seriously, who cares?
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- look_lookatme 18y agoindeed.
- dhuck 18y agouser: tdavis created: 287 days ago karma: 911 it really disappoints me to see users with very high karma levels making such obscene, unnecessary and completely non-hacker-news-esque comments. you are hurting this community: please stop.
- swombat 18y agoI think it's great that people in this community still feel they can comment without a chastity belt of righteousness strapped around their mouth. Shame to see that going away thanks to people like you.
- LPTS 18y agoI agree with dhuck, don't you guys know that being a hacker in the countercultural and sci fi sense is all about sounding like you are surronded by 70 year old lutheran women at church. I read in neuromancer about how that cyberpunk guy was always like "tone it down for the communities sake man." I think if this comment offended you, you should get the fuck off of hacker news. You are polluting an important and necessary countercultural concept with your bullshit morality. If you want it to be all prim and proper, call it "hierarchically organized entrepreneurial news related to information economies for boring professionals who take themselves too seriously" and leave my cherished countercultural concepts out of it. I'm constantly amazed how many people in here are stuck in old paradigms. This site is branded hacker news, not lutheran technology update.
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- tdavis 18y agoSeriously people? I didn't expect this to be taken well by most here (in fact it was an experiment to see if there was a limit to down-voting), but some of you seem to be on a war path now. It doesn't really matter what the Justin.tv CEO said. He pasted some boiler plate because there's nothing more to be said; the deed had been done. What do you want? An apology for not finding the video? For not policing the Internet? Prosecution of anybody "egging him on?" Come on. Someone broadcast their suicide. That fact doesn't make it any more tragic than any other suicide. It also doesn't mean anybody more than usual was responsible. There's really no story here which is why I chose to make a comment that didn't acknowledge there was. You may return to being irrationally sanctimonious now.
- noonespecial 18y agoSeriously people? I didn't expect this to be taken well by most here (in fact it was an experiment to see if there was a limit to down-voting), but some of you seem to be on a war path now. Oh, so now I'm a guinea pig in a sociology experiment when I come to hacker news? Nice. That makes it so much better. Don't think I'll be using ticket-bumbler either. Edit: Note for future. Ask HN: Paul, Is there a downvote limit on HN? See, isn't that better?
- catch404 18y agoOr, surely he could check out the arc source? Doesn't add much to his argument.
- mrtron 18y agoPosting comments irrelevant to your initial insensitivity will not help save face, especially when you throw in an attack towards the entire crowd.
- allenbrunson 18y agohow does this have anything to do with what you posted? your comment was insensitive, regardless of what justin.tv executives did or didn't do.
- debt 18y agoYou're an idiot.
- run4yourlives 18y agoHonestly, I think your account should be revoked after that comment, unless you see it fit to properly apologize. Also, when you have your (and your partner's) business linked in your profile, you should think twice about what you say. Your concern about your reputation may be little, but I'm sure your livelihood is a little more important. I'm left questioning not only your maturity, but that of user fallentimes, also from ticketstumbler, and even PG and YCombinator itself. I certainly do not want to be associated with people that feel another individual's suicide is a joke. Your business will not see any revenue from me, ever.
- SamReidHughes 18y agoYou should think about your own maturity level before engaging in self-indulgent posts such as the one you just wrote. The funny thing about the sentence I just wrote is that you could validly echo it back to me. At least the self-indulgence part. Unfortunately for you, I have been thinking about my maturity level while writing this post. In all seriousness (and my first sentence was serious too), what we have here is that your comment's parent was written by a person who is comfortable with making light of human tragedy, something which you are uncomfortable with. I'm not sure what that has to do with maturity, and in fact I'm not sure what maturity is or why you think that attribute would be a sign of immaturity.
- run4yourlives 18y agoI'm not sure how my post is self-indulgent, to be honest. Most people would consider black humour regarding a suicide that basically just happened as inappropriate and immature. After a certain period has elapsed, some venues will allow for such an expression. (The fact that the parent is a -50 in rating as I write this confirms this social norm.) People who make inopportune remarks tend to be those that are either not able to properly grasp the magnitude of a situation and deal with it in a dignified and respectful way; or even worse, can't pick up on the general consensus of others as to the degree of magnitude. How well a person can read social situations is by definition, maturity.
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- adammichaelc 18y agoTicketStumbler founders - Get a life.
- swombat 18y agoI'm sure they have no problem in that area. Do you?
- ynd 18y agoWhy are you defending this thread so bad?
- swombat 18y agoBecause I have a thing against sheep-like waves of self-righteousness colimating on a single hapless victim. It could have been me - hell, I made a comment just as caustic as tdavis, but somehow I got "lucky" and ignored by the masses of supposedly terribly offended users.
- tdavis 18y agoI have since apologize for this stupid comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=371638 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=371638 I didn't reply here because I doubt the down-vote wave has crested.
- swombat 18y agoYou shouldn't have apologised. Shame on you for giving in to the righteous hordes, from a moral standpoint. From a business standpoint, it may have seemed the only practical action, but in my mind you compromised your personal integrity by apologising to these people, and I'm sorry that you did.
- tdavis 18y agoI believe in the end it was something that deserved an apology, but doing so certainly did compromise my personal integrity. I guess compromising it one time won't kill me.
- nihilocrat 18y agoI don't see any problems with dark humor, much worse is said around my office. No one could possibly be serious when saying that sort of stuff.
- altrego99 18y agoMan you got downvoted like anything! I wonder how it was done though, as HN seems to lack any control downvoting in my browser.
- Tritis 18y agoYou aren't worth enough to see a down arrow I believe. There is some threshold of karma you need before it appears. I guess; I'm not worthy either.
- gambling8nt 18y agoThere's a karma minimum for downvoting.