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No more weird than the use in your profile: "the moderation system on HN is in dire need of an overhaul". In reality, nothing globally catastrophic will happen
by chc 15y ago
No more weird than the use in your profile: "the moderation system on HN is in dire need of an overhaul". In reality, nothing globally catastrophic will happen if either does not come to pass. Both are really more like "strongly felt personal preferences". Hopefully the usage makes more sense now.
- cma 15y agoOnly one of the two has a positional externality that cancels out all of the utility.
- chc 15y agoThat depends entirely on what "utility" you're assigning to the things in the first place.
- vacri 15y agoA classic Reductio ad Absurdum fallacy, suggesting that imminent global catasrophe is required for something to be questioned. Anyway, within the scope of moderation systems, the HN system is in dire need of overhaul - it's terrible, and often leaves people annoyed and puzzled. Within the scope of clothing, people do not often need new clothes every week. A very, very small segment of people might be actually negatively affected by not having new clothing every week. But honestly, the subtext of my comment is that this product just feeds into the impossible ideals of the fashion world. Fixing the moderation system on HN can be done by one coder in an afternoon. Fixing the multiple complex issues with body images is not so trite, and while not catastrophic in the traditional sense, certainly does have global consequences.