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> HN's been around for nearly 20 years. You can check its growth. It was not a comment about "growth". It was a comment about function. Besides, Facebook has b

> HN's been around for nearly 20 years. You can check its growth. It was not a comment about "growth". It was a comment about function. Besides, Facebook has been around since 2005. > You do not have to do this when you code You do not have to, you are right. But people who are bad a coding do not do it. https://dev.to/philip-ainberger/the-art-of-code-commenting-3m7i https://dev.to/philip-ainberger/the-art-of-code-commenting-3... > Social spaces, whether online or off don't work like code. This very site uses code to control the conversation between two people. Where does this happen in the real world? Where is the algorithm that can make what comes out of my mouth not reach your ears? Where is the upvote floating over my head in real life? CAn someone new I meet look back at everything I said in my life? Below is the third party on HN, like a policeman looking over our shoulder 24/7. http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... > If you want to design a messageboard by voting, you should try that. Why? So we become more splintered and alienated? This is what destroyed Linux. > supported by concrete facts or experiences If someone else can control you with a rule or law, without giving you a way to change that rule or law, what would you call that? Defiend as Authoritarian : favouring or enforcing strict obedience to authority (dang/algorithm) at the expense of personal freedom (the HN user)" While a "flamewar" might be distracting, banning someone for it is precisely authoritarian as well as subjective.

pvg 2y ago
It was not a comment about "growth". It was a comment about function. The article's claims, to which you were drawing a parallel, are about growth, not function. Now you're basically saying you're not actually drawing a parallel and the rest of it is very difficult to follow, it reads to me that mostly you want to call HN authoritarian (which, ok, but not very interesting on its own) but for reasons I can't quite put my finger on, you'd prefer not do anything about it - things like, say, proposing an alternative design or sending an email are right out.
- FollowingTheDao 2y ago
  It is about growth and function. Function is manipulated to foster growth. That is the process of enshitification. And the growth here is not specifically about HN, but also YC and the "growth" of consent. Eg. "tech is good" EDITING to say: Never mind. Evil and greed are proliferating and promoted on the internet. This young girl school shooter proves it if you look at what she had access to and what she watched on discord. Leaving it.
throw4847285 2y ago
> https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-reall... I wonder what the automatically assigned penalty is for wheresyoured.at? I assume it's quite high.

pvg 2y ago

It was not a comment about "growth". It was a comment about function. The article's claims, to which you were drawing a parallel, are about growth, not function. Now you're basically saying you're not actually drawing a parallel and the rest of it is very difficult to follow, it reads to me that mostly you want to call HN authoritarian (which, ok, but not very interesting on its own) but for reasons I can't quite put my finger on, you'd prefer not do anything about it - things like, say, proposing an alternative design or sending an email are right out.

FollowingTheDao 2y ago
It is about growth and function. Function is manipulated to foster growth. That is the process of enshitification. And the growth here is not specifically about HN, but also YC and the "growth" of consent. Eg. "tech is good" EDITING to say: Never mind. Evil and greed are proliferating and promoted on the internet. This young girl school shooter proves it if you look at what she had access to and what she watched on discord. Leaving it.

throw4847285 2y ago

> https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-reall... I wonder what the automatically assigned penalty is for wheresyoured.at? I assume it's quite high.