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like other people are saying -- HN is news by committee. just try to post a joke on here one day & see how many rapid downvotes it gets if you ever need proof o
by fat0wl 13y ago
like other people are saying -- HN is news by committee. just try to post a joke on here one day & see how many rapid downvotes it gets if you ever need proof of how lame & uptight the HN crowd can be once they hit that 500 rep.
i posted a joke on a comment of someone going "This. A million times this." the other day cuz that is the most melodramatic, overused, annoying, lame textual meme... the joke was pretty innocuous & immediately got like 5 downvotes.
I don't mean to hate too hard cuz it is what it is, i dont care about my karma, & obv its good enough that i still read articles here but posters being annoying/hypocritical/oversensitive/humourless/feeling that they are the protectors of society... very common on HN. I think it is some facet of the nature of people thinking they are real sophisticated by reading HN for some odd reason (basing this on all the wannabe devs I know on social sites who make it a point to mention it constantly in posts like "my fav sites to procrastinate on"), whereas there are lots of higher-level programming communities out there who seem to have less of this self-seriousness.
that said, occasionally there is that nice moment of a few reasonable people chatting each other & introducing to tech they may have otherwise overlooked. I'm heavy into Clojure & the other day a Lisper on here pointed me to freenode to get community help rather than SO, for example. It's all percentages, I guess :-/
- nitrogen 13y agofeeling that they are the protectors of society... Not society, just the SNR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio).
- fat0wl 13y agoobvious logic, link to wiki for explanation of common term -- u my friend are due for about 5 upvotes in the HN chain of circular validation. i understand it as a way for SNR sure, but mostly its just a way to fade the text of people you disagree with. it doesn't solve much for people who can skim, & it usually just makes me more curious about what got downvoted (some of the comments are very insightful but just pissed off those with normative opinion) im just not into kool-aid drinking & the weird PG (harhar no pun intended) vibe of HN while downvoting & having this weird karma system smacks of lame culty passive aggression, which incidentally is much more offensive to me than actual aggression
- fat0wl 13y agoalso i wasn't gonna say anything but can't help from chuckling about it -- i am an audio DSP engineer so by nature I've probably done more work/research concerning SNR than 99% of people on the planet ever will lol. i didnt want to come of as indignant tho, its just a funny coincidence. you never quite know who you are condescending to on here
- nitrogen 13y agoI've worked with audio DSP, too. I think the comparison to audio SNR is appropriate. The wiki link was as much for other readers as for you or me.