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I'm embarrassed to see such a mean-spirited post on the front page.
by pg 18y ago
I'm embarrassed to see such a mean-spirited post on the front page.
- tsally 18y agoIndeed. There are a few traces of valid points (bringing up the violent crimes against teachers is pretty relevant). Any validity that the points might contain is marred by the tone of the post.
- fuzzmeister 18y agoThis is a truly disturbing post. By his logic, everyone should be happy and singing because they are better off than a mine worker in South Africa. It's simply absurd and a completely wrong way to look at the world. And, then he goes on to say that Arrington's style makes him essentially deserve this kind of treatment. I think a journalist, a man, should be able to comment how he wants without exposing himself to hatred and threats against his life. This author needs to grow the hell up.
- lhorie 18y agoI'm with you. I feel drama tends to become counterproductive in online communities, as people end up spending more time on the latest linkbait (let's face it, ignoring it is not exactly effortless), and less time on things that actually have the potential to grow the reader.
- jasonlbaptiste 18y agoI hesitated on posting it. My logic was moreso to let the comments show why it was a bad post. I know Charlie, and I was pretty shocked to see the post come from him. HN tends to do that on articles like this, which is why I read the comments.
- dfranke 18y agoI think it might be time to experiment with giving a down arrow for stories. Maybe it would even be enough if you just gave it to editors, so they have a less severe alternative to killing stories.
- jasonlbaptiste 18y agoI'm just going to delete it. I don't want the karma from it. Thought it might be a good example to argue against / what not to do. Sadly, i think people aren't voting it up for that reason.
- bullseye 18y agoI don't think you have to apologize for submitting. Maybe I'm wrong, but I've never viewed submissions as always being a positive endorsement of the content.
- jasonlbaptiste 18y agoyeah, it just didn't add anything positive to the community. At best, it was neutral. I'd rather have a positive story be on the front page. It was also pretty high up.
- palish 18y agoThank you. And yeah, I can't think of a way to submit a story as an example of "what not to do" without editorializing its title / adding "prefix" commentary at the top of the page.
- jacoblyles 18y agoPeople need to put down the Haterade. I hope if Arrington ever criticizes my startup that I have the self-control not to take it as personally as some of these people have. This whole fiasco and its fallout has been a great lesson and reminder to me to act and speak more professionally, which is always something that's hard because I'm an emotional person. But I don't want my deficiencies to be put on display for the whole world to see, as these peoples' have. Good object lesson.
- palish 18y agoJust curious, was this story upvoted by mostly newer users? Could you compute the average "age" by averaging how many days ago each user created their accounts? (I'm wondering about the "age" result of this specific story, but it also seems like a potentially useful metric that you could use to push stories like this down the page faster.)