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Slightly OT, but I'm a bit annoyed at HN's recent... scatological shift. Since when did it become vogue to, pardon the pun, shit all over people in your blog p

Slightly OT, but I'm a bit annoyed at HN's recent... scatological shift. Since when did it become vogue to, pardon the pun, shit all over people in your blog posts/titles? Apparently entrepreneurship is better known as entrepreneurshit. Then we find out that that itself is bullshit. And now Elop is full of shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. And more to the point, can we as a community and industry not do anything except put down others with sensationalist linkbait titles? Can we not criticize companies and people without acting like a bunch of 12 year-olds who just figured out some cuss words? Where is the decorum and mutual respect? Why is it that every. single. day I come on hacker news and every. single. day I find some blogger slagging another blogger? Why do we act like the macho-male version of Mean Girls?

rimantas 14y ago
This is an original title. I will take shitty idiom over censorship and prudery any time.
- potatolicious 14y ago
  This post would be equally annoying had "shit" been replaced with something classier like "pompous idiotic blowhard". The issue is not with swearing, it's with the fact that a large portion of HN's front page every day is filled with one tech industry personality (or wannabe personality) slinging metaphorical poo at another. The pointless overuse of swear words really just makes an already juvenile situation even more childish.
debacle 14y ago
The downward descent into distraction is slowly accelerating. HN is slowly turning into a tabloid. People have found they can game the system for clicks, and they are doing so to their fullest. The biggest problem is that some of these rants actually have value. It's just impossible to tell which ones.
bungle 14y ago
In this situation all the good will is already used, and the polite approaches have already been tried. Nothing does seem to get the message to Nokia, and now we have entered to the "screw you" phase. Nokia has decent hardware (good cameras, nice touchscreen and display, and some great services). They have just selected the wrong horse to deliver that. And why did they even had to select in a first place. None of their competitors have. While Elop, and Siilasmaa is on the board, nothing is going to change. That's really a sad state of Nokia. Nokia is not anymore lead by business decisions, but by some weird politics, where neither Nokia's board of directors nor their management cannot do anything about it. But whatever they do, they have lost their face already. Nokia is not a respectable company. They don't build their own success anymore.
gm 14y ago
HN's signal to noise ratio is dropping fast. Pretty soon the time taken to filter out the useful stuff will make reading HN not worthwhile. It is what it is, though. I guess it's what happens when you let people submit stuff without moderation. 'Twas nice while it lasted, HN.
general_failure 14y ago
This doesn't have to do with HN or bloggers. This has to do with the general populace. Have you been in Facebook off late? Whenever I see some pictures of anyone there, there's always someone commenting "you look gorgeous", "wow, you look smashing". Or people saying "we had the best time ever", "I did mind blowing stuff" etc etc. This is just the language people use these days. Wodehouse would be very happy that he is not a part of this generation.

rimantas 14y ago

This is an original title. I will take shitty idiom over censorship and prudery any time.

potatolicious 14y ago
This post would be equally annoying had "shit" been replaced with something classier like "pompous idiotic blowhard". The issue is not with swearing, it's with the fact that a large portion of HN's front page every day is filled with one tech industry personality (or wannabe personality) slinging metaphorical poo at another. The pointless overuse of swear words really just makes an already juvenile situation even more childish.

debacle 14y ago

The downward descent into distraction is slowly accelerating. HN is slowly turning into a tabloid. People have found they can game the system for clicks, and they are doing so to their fullest. The biggest problem is that some of these rants actually have value. It's just impossible to tell which ones.

bungle 14y ago

In this situation all the good will is already used, and the polite approaches have already been tried. Nothing does seem to get the message to Nokia, and now we have entered to the "screw you" phase. Nokia has decent hardware (good cameras, nice touchscreen and display, and some great services). They have just selected the wrong horse to deliver that. And why did they even had to select in a first place. None of their competitors have. While Elop, and Siilasmaa is on the board, nothing is going to change. That's really a sad state of Nokia. Nokia is not anymore lead by business decisions, but by some weird politics, where neither Nokia's board of directors nor their management cannot do anything about it. But whatever they do, they have lost their face already. Nokia is not a respectable company. They don't build their own success anymore.

gm 14y ago

HN's signal to noise ratio is dropping fast. Pretty soon the time taken to filter out the useful stuff will make reading HN not worthwhile. It is what it is, though. I guess it's what happens when you let people submit stuff without moderation. 'Twas nice while it lasted, HN.

general_failure 14y ago

This doesn't have to do with HN or bloggers. This has to do with the general populace. Have you been in Facebook off late? Whenever I see some pictures of anyone there, there's always someone commenting "you look gorgeous", "wow, you look smashing". Or people saying "we had the best time ever", "I did mind blowing stuff" etc etc. This is just the language people use these days. Wodehouse would be very happy that he is not a part of this generation.