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Yes people should lighten up, and then when joke threads are always the top comment, novelty accounts are always expected, tech news becomes whatever Engadget a
by benologist 13y ago
Yes people should lighten up, and then when joke threads are always the top comment, novelty accounts are always expected, tech news becomes whatever Engadget and Gizmodo are plagiarizing, meme-images become upvoted comments, and the 'leaders' list gets dislodged by IFuckedYourMom and CitationNeeded, in that order, we can reflect back on why letting funny comments become normal isn't such an awesome idea.
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- drnooo 13y agoYour comment is exactly the reason I want to leave. If you don't believe that you can have an intelligent community without downvoting that allows humor, and the majority of the community feels that way- that is not a community I want to be a part of. And as I said, it is more than that. I am wasting hours upon hours here not creating anything- not using my time in a practical way. That is really bad, and it is an addiction really. I will be up on HN until 1-2am when I need to wake up and take care of the kids the next day. It is the heroin of the development and IT scene and I want off of it badly. So, I'm quitting again. You can take this as constructive criticism and try to do something about it like eliminate downvoting, limit the ability to comment until you've spent a month on the site, stop anonymous user creation and use Google and FB auth, and limit time on the site somehow to stop HN addiction.