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> Right, because the Indian independence movement is exactly like crowdfunding. Grandiose, self-important valley startup wank talk. Like "disrupting the market
by BrainInAJar 13y ago
> Right, because the Indian independence movement is exactly like crowdfunding.
Grandiose, self-important valley startup wank talk. Like "disrupting the market" by making another bullshit website or app.
- dang 13y agoThis is a truly awful comment that should never be on Hacker News at all, let alone upvoted. This is not because of what it says about "the valley", but because of its form. It could be about anything else and be just as bad. Please don't post this sort of thing. (Edit: I completely rewrote my comment here, because I'm still getting the hang of this. Also, all these feedback comments I've been adding are an experiment in comment quality and transparency. We're going to keep experimenting until we find things that work. I doubt that this experiment is going to work, because I'm getting tired of writing these, and some of you are no doubt tired of reading them.)
- joshdance 13y agoI like the feedback comments. Explaining what kind of comments are not wanted will help I believe. Thanks.
- tptacek 13y agoI think these comments are awesome, but I can't imagine having to write them regularly. The "I'm burying the story" stuff is especially useful.
- dang 13y agoI'm going to keep writing them for a while while we brainstorm alternatives. It's good to do things manually for a long time before you figure out how to automate them. That's how I wrote my HN moderation software.
- rdl 13y agoI especially love how you generally stick to criticizing the action vs. the person -- sort of like "this comment isn't appropriate for HN; please do better" vs. "please die". (I was just going through all your comments after seeing one; this is really becoming the new 'pg: "Please stop"')
- tptacek 13y agoSomeone needs to buy Paul Graham a baseball cap with those words embroidered onto it.