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It's human nature to want to guess at possible explanations for things that are unusual and unexpected. If hearing those guesses annoys you, nobody is forcing

by swores 1y ago

It's human nature to want to guess at possible explanations for things that are unusual and unexpected. If hearing those guesses annoys you, nobody is forcing you to read through comments on a thread of people making them! (I hope - sorry if you are being forced after all.)

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zamadatix 1y ago
Idle speculation is far from the only thing you won't find me supporting just because it's human nature. Thankfully, HN comment threads tend to include a lot more than just that kind of discussion, which is why I read them. Indeed there are lots of great details I didn't glean or fully understand in the report covered in the comments. That doesn't mean I will always agree with the comments (or that everyone will always agree with mine) and that's okay. It'd be a very limited value discussion if we could only ever comment when we agree. It seems exceedingly unlikely any of this has something to do with users being forced to be here though.
- swores 1y ago
  Having just found myself in a similar situation to the one you were complaining about, I'd like to withdraw and apologise for my previous comment :D
sunnybeetroot 1y ago
They are a forum moderator and therefore it is part of their job, it is nice that you apologised.
- swores 1y ago
  I... don't believe that's the case? Though happy to be proven wrong. Unless perhaps you mean a moderator of a different forum, though that wouldn't really be relevant to their reading a thread of HN comments on a subject that annoys them.
  - sunnybeetroot 1y ago
    You could be right and I’m getting confused with someone else. We will need to wait for them to confirm.
    - zamadatix 1y ago
      Not me! I'm not even sure I'd be the right type or the right energy level to do it if the opportunity even came up. Hats off to the team here for the dedication.
mr_toad 1y ago
> If hearing those guesses annoys you, nobody is forcing you to read through comments on a thread of people making them! It’d be nice if we could only read insightful comments, and unread the wacko comments, but we can’t. This discussion has actually provided a lot of useful comments from people who seem to know what they’re talking about, but also a lot of really wild speculation.

by swores 1y ago

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zamadatix 1y ago

Idle speculation is far from the only thing you won't find me supporting just because it's human nature. Thankfully, HN comment threads tend to include a lot more than just that kind of discussion, which is why I read them. Indeed there are lots of great details I didn't glean or fully understand in the report covered in the comments. That doesn't mean I will always agree with the comments (or that everyone will always agree with mine) and that's okay. It'd be a very limited value discussion if we could only ever comment when we agree. It seems exceedingly unlikely any of this has something to do with users being forced to be here though.

swores 1y ago
Having just found myself in a similar situation to the one you were complaining about, I'd like to withdraw and apologise for my previous comment :D

sunnybeetroot 1y ago

They are a forum moderator and therefore it is part of their job, it is nice that you apologised.

swores 1y ago
I... don't believe that's the case? Though happy to be proven wrong. Unless perhaps you mean a moderator of a different forum, though that wouldn't really be relevant to their reading a thread of HN comments on a subject that annoys them.
- sunnybeetroot 1y ago
  You could be right and I’m getting confused with someone else. We will need to wait for them to confirm.
  - zamadatix 1y ago
    Not me! I'm not even sure I'd be the right type or the right energy level to do it if the opportunity even came up. Hats off to the team here for the dedication.

mr_toad 1y ago

> If hearing those guesses annoys you, nobody is forcing you to read through comments on a thread of people making them! It’d be nice if we could only read insightful comments, and unread the wacko comments, but we can’t. This discussion has actually provided a lot of useful comments from people who seem to know what they’re talking about, but also a lot of really wild speculation.