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Before you scoff and dismiss this as silly, superstitious nonsense, know this: there have been ZERO vampire incidents in Poland since this practice was adopted.
by smcl 3y ago
Before you scoff and dismiss this as silly, superstitious nonsense, know this: there have been ZERO vampire incidents in Poland since this practice was adopted.
- jychang 3y ago[flagged]
- sheepscreek 3y agoLast paragraph in HN guidelines: > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
- yreg 3y agoThe rule stating it is an illusion doesn't make it untrue.
- smcl 3y agoThere’s a 16+ comment discussion on whether or not an innocent, on-topic and factually correct comment is appropriate. HN is not becoming Reddit, it’s becoming more HN than ever. Personally I think it’s a little suspicious that there are HN users who appear to be attempting to discredit or silence comments praising the efficacy of a proven anti-vampire technology.
- pfannkuchen 3y ago> It's a semi-noob illusion The evidence provided for this is example comments from 10+ years ago complaining that HN was becoming Reddit way back then. However, Reddit 10+ years ago was very different from Reddit today. It is arguably(?) much worse today. HN may be turning into Reddit continuously, it's just that Reddit keeps moving the goal posts.
- IggleSniggle 3y agoEternal February instead of Eternal September
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- blamazon 3y agoIf this is not a satirical comment, can I ask you to justify this position? What is disturbed by having a bit of humor alongside our intellectual curiosity? I could have missed it, but don't see anything discouraging humor (referential or otherwise) in the HN guidelines[1] or FAQ[2] with regard to commentary. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- johnnyworker 3y agoThe keyword is "alongside intellectual curiosity". If you can make a point in a funny manner, do it. But if just making jokes becomes accepted, jokes drown out everything else, simply because they are infinite. Like all those gaming subreddits that consist 99% of "funny thing that just happened" or "this reference to a thing that occurs in the game, which you can recognize as occurring in the game to confirm that you have, indeed, played that game". You can call that socializing but to me it's just turning everything into everything/nothing forums. If HN becomes soft on that, we need a new HN.
- callahad 3y agoNothing wrong with humor, but on a completely personal level, it does frustrate me when the top comment is entirely superficial, since it adds nothing to the conversation. And subjectively, it feels like there's been an uptick in joke / meme / information-free comments and their ranking in the wake of recent Twitter and Reddit turmoil. But hey, I've been here for 15 years, and forum cultures change over time. I wouldn't overindex on my feelings.
- krapp 3y agoWhat's ironic is the tangential threads complaining about humor on HN throw far more noise and entropy into these threads than the jokes themselves. People could have just ignored it, or downvoted it and moved on, but no, someone made a joke and now we need to stop the car and have discourse about how HN is turning into Reddit. Knuckles must be rapped. Fingers wagged and pearls clutched. Again.
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- snoth 3y agoYes, and it's getting worse.
- fodkodrasz 3y agoEvery website has become reddit since the recent reddit controversies. Hell, even 4chan is flooded by reddit style comments... I'm rooting for the fediverse, hopefully it (and youtube) can contain the effect.
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- the_only_law 3y ago> and youtube Yea, because YouTube comments are famously a bastion of intelligent, relevant discussion.
- mikrl 3y agoHey! Here that’s called ‘enshittening’
- crossroadsguy 3y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22into%20reddit%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... (I thought I'd keep the t word out of it to make the search URL sound different) As if HN is some sort of intellectual silver snowflake and apparently better than Reddit. It's actually not. But I guess it's not worse either. Isn't that nice?
- yreg 3y agoDefine 'better'. The average HN discussion is more substantive and on-topic than the average reddit thread, especially a default one.
- crossroadsguy 3y agoNo, it’s not. As for on-topic - HN starts talking about Kotlin and Swift and pretty soon it’s discussing relatively theory and Madam Curie and what not on the same thread. And no, that’s not better and that’s not on-topic unless HN tries to define its own “on-topic” and it’s own “better” and then applies it to Reddit. > Define 'better' No, I won’t. Because yours would ne different from mine.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago1) You're making a category error; comparing HN to Reddit makes as much sense as comparing a scalar to a vector. 2) People have been saying this since approximately day one of HN; it's this site's equivalent to social decay / "kids these days", which is a sentiment that dates back to antiquity.
- vlunkr 3y agoI’d rather read a joke than a debate about whether jokes are acceptable.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoNo humor allowed, let's instead talk about how to use Rust (the language) to prevent the newly interred to rise again.
- veave 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVqLHghLpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVqLHghLpw
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>there have been ZERO vampire incidents in Poland since this practice was adopted How would you otherwise recognize a vampire incident it one were to happen?
- TeMPOraL 3y agoWe didn't need to, we had official letters from the Vampire Provisional Government that they're packing up and moving to (what we today call) Romania. (That's also historically the first recorded incident of organizational rage-quit after losing the game to a cheese strategy.)
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- squeaky-clean 3y agoClassic methods such as blood sucking wounds on victims or witness reports of hearing Toccata and Fugue in D minor playing in the background suddenly.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> there have been ZERO vampire incidents in Poland since this practice was adopted. Have you considered a career with Homeland Security?
- ozim 3y agoSo now if they dig them up and essentially freed, there will be vampire plague in Poland?
- jjkaczor 3y agoHeh... Logic! Well - now they no longer need to hide themselves away, they are hiding-in-plain sight... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion
- mzs 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_P%C4%99kalski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_P%C4%99kalski
- mickdeek86 3y ago"The vampire of Bytow" - Is that pronounced [bite...ow]??
- mzs 3y agoHa, it's BI-toof (bi like in bit) and in Kashubian Bëtowò. Their city website has some nice multimedia* BTW, the songs (Bytów w piosence) is particularly great. They commissioned some Pomeranian artists (not the dogs, though that would be even cooler, the region) to record them, many are written especially for this page. Some are even pò kaszëbe. Anyway, it's a really nice place that had an unfortunate occupant. Now try to pronounce Bydgoszcz ;) * https://www.bytow.com.pl/Multimedia,27 https://www.bytow.com.pl/Multimedia,27
- Etherlord87 3y ago> Ha, it's BI-toof (bi like in bit) Almost. I'm Polish, so I know how to pronounce "Bytów", but I got confused for a moment if maybe I didn't know hot to say "bit" in English… Wiktionary says "bit" is pronounced as [bit] using IPA. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bit https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bit Wiktionary also says "Bytów" is pronounced as IPA: [ˈbɨtuf], AS: [bytuf]. You can listen to it here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Pl-Byt%C3%B3w.ogg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Pl-Byt%C... London, South African, Southern American "lip" is one example of this vowel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_unrounded_vowel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_unrounded_vowel
- mzs 3y agobit + vampire... Get it ;) Anyway I was born in Gdańsk so now I'll be self conscious about yet another thing I mispronounce in English.