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Absolutely. Its funny when people on HN unironically claim this site to be a tiny miraculous exception.
by aydyn 1y ago
Absolutely. Its funny when people on HN unironically claim this site to be a tiny miraculous exception.
- frollogaston 1y agoThis really is the most friendly forum I've been on that isn't something ultra-specific like crownvic.net
- 7thaccount 1y agoIs that a forum for people with crown Victoria vehicles?
- frollogaston 1y agoYeah. I'm not signed up there, just end up finding advice and docs there often if I'm fixing something on my Vic.
- 7thaccount 1y agoA comfy tank on wheels!
- claudiulodro 1y agoWas not expecting to see crownvic.net on HN! Definitely the best and friendliest resource for the Panther platform!
- frollogaston 1y agoThe Panthers show up when you least expect them.
- chrisg23 1y agoI'm new here but I agree. The ratio of discussions to arguments here is like the inverse of most large forums. Its not perfect of course, neither am I.
- whamlastxmas 1y agoHonestly I saw more petty drama on the Toyota Yaris forums than I ever do here
- frollogaston 1y agoI'm guessing this is 99% because the Yaris has a stickshift option and someone went on the forums to dunk on automatic users
- aydyn 1y agoSure if you agree with the majority you don't run into a lot of toxicity. But centering your ideological bubble is its own form of toxicity that is enabled by the internet.
- frollogaston 1y agoThere are a lot of things I disagree with the majority on here. But it's more like in a real life convo, most disagreements don't need to turn into huge debates in the first place, let alone result in name-calling and group-shaming.
- aydyn 1y ago> There are a lot of things I disagree with the majority on here Such as? Are any of those disagreements ideological?
- frollogaston 1y agoI don't like any tech gadgets, don't care a lot about digital privacy, prefer imperial measurements, think dynamic types are the best for high-level code, am opposed to ipv6, think Golang is pointless, want an official Linux desktop OS (not just kernel) to exist, think adults shouldn't be playing video games. And have said all those things repeatedly here. If that all sounds too non-spicy, well, even mentioning the smaller things like JS vs TS on a mainstream Reddit page got people calling me a moron and my comment hidden because the score got too low. If I said it on a different page, maybe it would've been +100 score and everyone disagreeing with me booted instead, but that's not any better. Learned quickly not to bother with there. HN isn't really a place for plain political discussions, so I don't participate in those. They do exist though, and end up getting locked. I'd probably be more right-wing than most.
- aydyn 1y agoRight, try participating in one of those political discussions here and see what happens. Also using reddit as a baseline is like using a cesspool tank as a baseline of sanitation.
- swat535 1y agoThe worst part is that God forbid the genders were reversed and you had a male only app to discuss their relationships. The app would be banned within a few seconds and 90% of people here would celebrate it. Majority of people assume the following: 1. Men don't deserve to have private spaces 2. Men can't be victims of abuse (sexual, physical or else) 3. Men don't need to be protected from toxic relationships 4. Women don't need to ask men for consent Men here refers to all men, including trans men, homosexuals, bisexuals, heterosexuals, etc. Perhaps, it's time that we have an honest discussion about the realities of living in the world as a man in 2025. If you're reading this and find my comment in bad taste, or that it frustrates you, I highly encourage that you take sometimes and introspect as to why you feel that way.
- seec 1y agoI'm glad, I'm not the only one feeling this way. My experience lately has been that if you are a man, you are just bad, regardless of if your behavior is actually condemnable or not. Worse than that, if you speak against any of the nonsense coming to you, you are extra bad. And they are surprised that fertility has fallen all over the place, seems like intended objective to me.