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Don't know if you realize this, but regular snark in your comments reinforces bad behavior from newcomers. There is no gray area here: either we tolerate snark
by DenisM 17y ago
Don't know if you realize this, but regular snark in your comments reinforces bad behavior from newcomers. There is no gray area here: either we tolerate snark & sarcasm and slide into a pit of goo, or we don't tolerate it and keep this place civilized. Every single post counts.
- tptacek 17y agoI wasn't looking for a whole "soul of Hacker News" thread here. I'd just like people to stop cluttering the comment threads with things that reinforce the behaviors of the "shitcocks" of the site. The rest of my response I'll take offline to you directly. Why clutter the thread further?
- cd34 17y agoI believed that until a post about a hamster in a tutu falling in the LHC outranked a post on an async i/o python engine. This is just slashdot with a different frontend/theme and less sci-fi.
- DenisM 17y agoI don't think we should give up, at the very least because there is nowhere else to go. That, plus YC has monetary resources they use to bring quality traffic here - all the YC members and applicants are by definition people who are at lest trying to build something, .i.e. being constructive.