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Interesting, hope this topic/discussion picks up steam here on HN. I'm really curious to see what people have to say about tipping in general. #Edit. More info
by zo1 12y ago
Interesting, hope this topic/discussion picks up steam here on HN. I'm really curious to see what people have to say about tipping in general.
#Edit. More info why I'd like this to be discussed on HN.
I say this, as I've discussed this topic many times with many individuals online. Frankly, most of them are very very hostile. I've received death threats from servers for suggesting the remove of the tipping culture. To be fair, it was on Facebook, but at the same time that is a bit disturbing. These are individuals making credible, violent, disgusting threats because they can't consider alternate views on something they are single-minded on.
I do generally find that HN discussion is quite a bit better. If not for the fact that downvoting is much more strict, then for the quality of ideas/insights that people here have. Sometimes, quite different to what I've been exposed to before. +1 for that.
- smt88 12y agoIn case you're wondering, you're being downvoted because you're not supposed to say things like "this is interesting" or "I agree" on HN. Comments are supposed to have content to them. Otherwise they should just be in the form of upvotes. Check out the link I posted elsewhere to the Planet Money episode on tipping.
- collyw 12y agogot to love HN's unwritten rules.
- fennecfoxen 12y agowho's unwritten? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- smt88 12y agoIf this is a rule, it actually is unwritten. There's nothing in the guidelines that says to upvote instead of writing "I agree" comments. However, this is a de facto rule because people will downvote such comments, so I thought it was worth warning people about.
- kenj0418 12y agoWatch out, there's also an unwritten rule that forbids commenting on the unwritten rules. Wait... Uh Oh, now I've broken it too.
- rubbingalcohol 12y agoIf HN comments were IE8 JavaScript interpreter, you would have just created a stack overflow from too much recursion.