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Naw, I disagree... if you can accede that they know that tastes vary, and thus that their own tastes aren't objective, then when they make a statement about the
by scarecrowbob 13y ago
Naw, I disagree... if you can accede that they know that tastes vary, and thus that their own tastes aren't objective, then when they make a statement about their tastes, they probably understand the subjectivity of the statement they are making.
I don't take what they are doing as an objective statement about taste, but rather as their own subjective statement, which you can't really avoid doing once you're designing stuff for folks.
- baddox 13y agoGiving the user an option to upvote or downvote an artist feels like a statement of subjectivity, but pre-banning an artist feels like a statement of objectivity. Of course, the user who used the term "circlejerk" is probably onto the true reasoning of the company: they did it because Nickelback hatred is one of those funny things that citizens of the Internet use to feel united with other citizens of the Internet.
- Crito 13y ago@baddox The "c...j...k" word causes comments on HN to auto-[dead].
- baddox 13y agoThanks for the tip. That's really dumb.
- scarecrowbob 13y agoIndeed-- that's lame. Not to my tastes, that's for sure. But hell, I'm pretty sure that the folks doing it know it's a subjective choice, and we know it-- we are literally "subject" to their tastes, because we are using something some other party came up with. But "Giving the user an option to upvote or downvote an artist feels like a statement of subjectivity, but pre-banning an artist feels like a statement of objectivity. Of course, the user who used the term "c...j...k" is probably onto the true reasoning of the company: they did it because Nickelback hatred is one of those funny things that citizens of the Internet use to feel united with other citizens of the Internet." I agree with your assessment of their tastes and reasoning, but I still think it's a consciously subjective statement on their part.
- Crito 13y agoA few other words do it too (rot13("znfgheongvba") does it as well, but only some of the time). I don't think this is caused by a hard-coded blacklist of words, but I'm not really sure exactly what conditions have to be met for it to happen. @scarecrowbob: Your comment (the one that is a sibling to this comment) is also [dead]. I have no idea why, this is getting kind of absurd...
- scarecrowbob 13y agoHA! My reply that quoted you is dead for similar reasons.
- needacig 13y agoCan you give more hints about this word? I want to know and I don't get the hint.
- Crito 13y agocircle + (beefjerky - cow) One of the tweets from the article used the term. Baddox quoted that term. If you turn on "show dead" you can see baddox's comment.
- gensym 13y agoSo that's why my list of all-time-best punk bands that I keep posting to HN never gets any replies!