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Great. One more way for snobs to look down on people, and one more thing for trolls to weaponize. But maybe it can be recursively destroyed. "Naw, only plebs

Great. One more way for snobs to look down on people, and one more thing for trolls to weaponize. But maybe it can be recursively destroyed. "Naw, only plebs think that's a pleb filter."

_jal 3y ago
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- krapp 3y ago
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  - dang 3y ago
    WTF? We've cut you an unbelievable amount of slack over the years but if you flout HN's rules this flagrantly, I don't know what you expect us to do. Do you want to be banned?
    - krapp 3y ago
      It was a joke, a parody of how often HN itself acts as a pleb filter, specifically about telling people to "go back to Reddit", and it got flagged... two days ago. Mea culpa for trying to be humorous in the no-humor zone. The commentariat already punished me. The system worked as intended, I paid a misdemeanor fine of karma for a misdemeanor offense, and I made a number of better comments since, and we should all have moved on by now. This wasn't something you needed to step in on.
      - bezier-curve 3y ago
        Karma in general is a poor metric of quality, and the way that downvotes are being gated from users not catering to popular opinion pushes out these voices that may not necessarily be fringe, but just unpopular at the time. This is a feedback loop, and only creates environments where people do not feel comfortable speaking out.
      - dang 3y ago
        Ok, I'll take your word for it and I apologize for overreacting!
- dang 3y ago
  Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? We've had to ask you more than once before, and it looks like you've been continuing to do it regularly. That's not cool and we eventually have to ban such accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
nehal3m 3y ago
Exactly what I was thinking, a pleb filter filter. Which points to what this snobbery actually boils down to. It’s all a big fat ‘no u’.
jabroni_salad 3y ago
Not being on the front page of google or app stores is a filter. Having an etiquette guide and having your noobie comments hidden by veteran users is a filter. Having an older style interface that puts off mainstream users is a filter. You come to HN for a reason, don't you? All the topics on HN could be on topic for /r/technology, but we are here instead. Look up a subreddit that relates to book genres. 95% of it will be identically worded recommendation threads and all of them will have the same books mentioned by responders, in an endless loop, forever. The askers are tourists who will never return or contribute meaningfully. That's what it looks like to have no filter.

Great. One more way for snobs to look down on people, and one more thing for trolls to weaponize. But maybe it can be recursively destroyed. "Naw, only plebs think that's a pleb filter."

_jal 3y ago

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krapp 3y ago
[flagged]
- dang 3y ago
  WTF? We've cut you an unbelievable amount of slack over the years but if you flout HN's rules this flagrantly, I don't know what you expect us to do. Do you want to be banned?
  - krapp 3y ago
    It was a joke, a parody of how often HN itself acts as a pleb filter, specifically about telling people to "go back to Reddit", and it got flagged... two days ago. Mea culpa for trying to be humorous in the no-humor zone. The commentariat already punished me. The system worked as intended, I paid a misdemeanor fine of karma for a misdemeanor offense, and I made a number of better comments since, and we should all have moved on by now. This wasn't something you needed to step in on.
    - bezier-curve 3y ago
      Karma in general is a poor metric of quality, and the way that downvotes are being gated from users not catering to popular opinion pushes out these voices that may not necessarily be fringe, but just unpopular at the time. This is a feedback loop, and only creates environments where people do not feel comfortable speaking out.
    - dang 3y ago
      Ok, I'll take your word for it and I apologize for overreacting!
dang 3y ago
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? We've had to ask you more than once before, and it looks like you've been continuing to do it regularly. That's not cool and we eventually have to ban such accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

nehal3m 3y ago

Exactly what I was thinking, a pleb filter filter. Which points to what this snobbery actually boils down to. It’s all a big fat ‘no u’.

jabroni_salad 3y ago

Not being on the front page of google or app stores is a filter. Having an etiquette guide and having your noobie comments hidden by veteran users is a filter. Having an older style interface that puts off mainstream users is a filter. You come to HN for a reason, don't you? All the topics on HN could be on topic for /r/technology, but we are here instead. Look up a subreddit that relates to book genres. 95% of it will be identically worded recommendation threads and all of them will have the same books mentioned by responders, in an endless loop, forever. The askers are tourists who will never return or contribute meaningfully. That's what it looks like to have no filter.