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Isn't this the kind of comment discussed directly in the post? Perhaps I'm feed the trolls, but honestly, knock it off unless you have something useful to add.
by orofino 14y ago
Isn't this the kind of comment discussed directly in the post? Perhaps I'm feed the trolls, but honestly, knock it off unless you have something useful to add.
- chris_wot 14y agoI have to agree. Flag the article, but don't moan if it gets on the font page. It'll go soon enough.
- huhtenberg 14y agoThey took away my Flag option when Steve Jobs died, after I flagged all but one Jobs-related posts on the front page. I really don't like navel gazing posts. "How much traffic I got from HN", "What I learned from being on the front page", "How I was brewing my coffee when I hit the front page", etc. This is self-centric bullshit that may with some effort be turned into an interesting discussion, but it is not inherently interesting, leave alone being notable. It's neither N nor is it H.
- chris_wot 14y agoThat's really fairly disruptive. Don't do that. I'm not really surprised they did this.
- huhtenberg 14y ago> Don't do that. Yes, sir.
- DanBC 14y agoThere are some articles which you don't find interesting. One option is to flag those articles. You've lost your ability to flag. Why do you think that commenting on these articles, especially with strongly negative content free sentences, is the right thing to do? > I really don't like navel gazing posts. "How much traffic I got from HN", "What I learned from being on the front page", "How I was brewing my coffee when I hit the front page", etc. This is self-centric bullshit that may with some effort be turned into an interesting discussion, but it is not inherently interesting, leave alone being notable. It's neither N nor is it H. The fact that those posts are so common, and voted up, seem to imply that for many people they are inherently interesting. But let's assume that you're correct. Your options are to flag, to ignore, to add to the signal, or to add to the noise. You chose to add to the noise! That feels really sub-optimal to me.
- huhtenberg 14y ago> Why do you think that commenting on these articles, especially with strongly negative content free sentences, is the right thing to do? I posted what I did to dissuade the OP from submitting similar junk to HN in the future. Flagging and ignoring doesn't have quite the same effect as it aims at the effect, not the cause.
- chris_wot 14y agoExcept that at the time, all the articles on HN news about Steve Jobs were intensely interesting to a large number of HN participants. Trying to flag them all was pointless, and as Wikipedia contributors would call it, POINTY (disruptive to try to make a point). Clearly the moderators frowned on this sort of behaviour, so you lost your ability to flag articles. Like I say, don't do that.
- huhtenberg 14y agoYes, sir.
- chris_wot 14y agoCorrection, not don't do that: you can't do that any more. Is that helpful?