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>PS: gotta love the massive wave of silent downvotes. Why? Thinly veiled sales pitch.
by sevagh 2y ago
>PS: gotta love the massive wave of silent downvotes. Why?
Thinly veiled sales pitch.
- EGreg 2y agoExcuse me but what is HN about if not sharing your work that you worked on? Oh, it's also about startups. And about funding them. And building stuff people want. I don't know man. Every time I put in a lot of work (a decade, say) and build something major and substantial to improve the world, and document it, linking to third party reputable sources for everything I'm claiming and saying, and give it away for free... if I share the link on HN, I often get downvoted. It's almost as if talking out of your ass and NOT doing anything to solve the problem, is far more appreciated. Like how people regularly complain about everything related to extreme centralization of control, surveillance capitalism, etc, and I built open source and free software give you an alternative, attracted millions of people in over 100 countries, and give it away for free to you here if you only look:: Web2: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Web2 Documentation: https://community.qbix.com https://community.qbix.com Web3: https://github.com/Intercoin https://github.com/Intercoin Web3 Documentation: https://intercoin.org/applications https://intercoin.org/applications But it gets downvoted because "hey I saw the word web3!" or "hey you're selling me... um... something". This is the "TLDR" generation. Don't like it? Don't use it. Or use the part you like. But how about the 99% of the useful, substantive information which doesn't involve selling anything at all?
- sevagh 2y agoI didn't downvote you myself (I don't care much about the topic), just my hunch as to why you got downvoted.
- mvid 2y agoSales pitches based on shitting on the main article get downvoted. Complaining about downvotes gets downvoted. Pity parties get downvoted. It’s not a mystery.
- EGreg 2y agoShitting how? Many popular comments on HN delight in picking on the posted article, especially vehemently if it is something they don’t like (eg web3) To me the cause seems simple: actively enforced groupthink
- jncfhnb 2y ago> Intercoin develops much-needed Web 5.0 solutions Rough start
- EGreg 2y agoTLDR generation, as I said. Oh and groupthink against Web>2. (A bit remiscent of bitcoin maximalists who claim nothing will ever improve upon Bitcoin and nothing is needed since an old 2009 technology solves it all).
- jncfhnb 2y ago> Take me seriously, you fools! That’s what’s I’m hearing from you. And my answer is no.
- EGreg 2y agoIt’s not that, honestly I prefer to see how far irrationality can go, on even the best forums. Because a lot of times this is exactly what people have to go through who have “built a better mousetrap” but the world doesn’t “beat a path to their door”, not even their peers care, depending entirely on how it is presented
- jncfhnb 2y agoSo what I’m hearing is: > People who have done something successfully often had others disagree with them, ergo if others disagree with me it’s probably a sign that I’m on the right path. And also that they’re “irrational”. Airtight my man
- EGreg 2y agoMy point is that many people reject very rational solutions, and don't even want to look at them, because of groupthink, and yes that's irrational. Ask yourself, for instance, what chance does a real Web3 solution have on HN? Even Jack Dorsey's bluesky, for instance, instantly lost HNers when Jack started branding it as "Web5". IPFS no longer generates much interest because of FileCoin. Just one example, of the "halo effect".