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Yes, posting and commenting here is intimidating at first. The combination of very smart people + strong opinions + all the web rockstars who hang out here giv
by ryanwaggoner 18y ago
Yes, posting and commenting here is intimidating at first. The combination of very smart people + strong opinions + all the web rockstars who hang out here gives one pause when commenting. I first wandered over to HN about six months ago from Reddit (and Digg, sad to say). For the first few weeks, the ratio of comments I wrote to comments I posted was about 2:1, because I was afraid of putting my foot in my mouth. Perhaps that's just me, though.
- donaq 18y agoOut of curiosity, what was the root cause of the fear? Getting downvoted?
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoNah...it's more that I live in SF and I have a startup and I'm increasingly meeting more and more of the people on HN, so I don't want to look like an idiot. I think of HN as online equivalent of a lounge at a university where a lot of really interesting people swing by to hang out and talk about things they care about. If I stop to think about how I might respond in such a setting, if the types of people who are on HN were sitting next to me, I'd probably run most things through my head before they left my mouth :)