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Since you broached the meta first, here's some feedback on the downvotes: 1. "HN hivemind" never goes over well. 2. "Rage-boner" is an ironically sexual metap

Since you broached the meta first, here's some feedback on the downvotes: 1. "HN hivemind" never goes over well. 2. "Rage-boner" is an ironically sexual metaphor for a comment on this topic. You could legitimately get in trouble for using that kind of language in a company that takes sexual harassment seriously, so it's a bit jarring to see it in your comment given the topic and your expressed opinion on it. 3. As the HN guidelines say, "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." Commenting about downvotes will generally get you more downvotes even if the rest of your content is fine.

alephnerd 2y ago
I agree that I broke HN rules, yet I've grown tired of the meta being used sparingly (not the fault of the mod team per say, but more so a reflection of how much HN usership has grown over the past 3-4 years). This connects with a point I've made to Dang multiple times over the years - ban any and all culture war topics like this from HN, they only degrade the platform. Alternatively, HN rules need to be reformed - HN is no longer a niche platform used by a handful of connected techies. I've even shown cases where accounts that Meta's abuse team linked to nation state disinfo campaigns remained active on HN [0] [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308530
fuzztester 2y ago
>1. "HN hivemind" never goes over well. interesting. why? i have used it a few times in my own hn comments, after having read it on hn multiple times. as an experiment, i did this: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hn+hivemind https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hn+hivemind and looked at the results. interestingly, the term was also used for positive comment.
- tptacek 2y ago
  Not complicated, not a thing worth litigating. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=sneer%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- lolinder 2y ago
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- soared 2y ago
  It’s a term taken from Reddit (originally Reddit hive mind). Generally outside of Reddit and more so on hn, people don’t like Reddit-specific things

alephnerd 2y ago

I agree that I broke HN rules, yet I've grown tired of the meta being used sparingly (not the fault of the mod team per say, but more so a reflection of how much HN usership has grown over the past 3-4 years). This connects with a point I've made to Dang multiple times over the years - ban any and all culture war topics like this from HN, they only degrade the platform. Alternatively, HN rules need to be reformed - HN is no longer a niche platform used by a handful of connected techies. I've even shown cases where accounts that Meta's abuse team linked to nation state disinfo campaigns remained active on HN [0] [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308530

fuzztester 2y ago

>1. "HN hivemind" never goes over well. interesting. why? i have used it a few times in my own hn comments, after having read it on hn multiple times. as an experiment, i did this: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hn+hivemind https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hn+hivemind and looked at the results. interestingly, the term was also used for positive comment.

tptacek 2y ago
Not complicated, not a thing worth litigating. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=sneer%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
lolinder 2y ago
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soared 2y ago
It’s a term taken from Reddit (originally Reddit hive mind). Generally outside of Reddit and more so on hn, people don’t like Reddit-specific things