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> Teenager from High school here. 4chan is genuinely a cesspool where trolling is the key purpose. Middle aged curmudgeon here. And the older I get the more I
by ajross 10mo ago
> Teenager from High school here. 4chan is genuinely a cesspool where trolling is the key purpose.
Middle aged curmudgeon here. And the older I get the more I realize that the hyperliterate technomagical credential flinging you see in the comments here is... basically just trolling. We do it to make ourselves feel smart.
Sure sure, we all want to imagine ourselves geniuses changing the world with the power of our intellect. But that's hard, and most of us settle for getting in a good barb or three in the comments.
- Imustaskforhelp 10mo agoYes, you might be right. Still I feel like there are people who share some genuine info on products and other interesting projects for fun. I think I can agree with you that perhaps sometimes comments might be getting barbs (first time I heard this phrase, I guess a still lot to learn xD) but also that this behaviour isn't rewarded in the context of an article or anything usually. Most articles are about coding related software and the pretext around it thus makes comments mostly helpful, or atleast have genuine reasons that one can weigh against And that behaviour is what's rewarded even in somewhat political posts on HN as compared to something like reddit which might not be helpful in a general stance and especially so in its political posts (or anything related to it)