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This comment just makes me sad. HN used to be such a respectful place a few years back. Now I keep seing comments like this. @antocv do you really think that y
by tucosan 11y ago
This comment just makes me sad. HN used to be such a respectful place a few years back. Now I keep seing comments like this.
@antocv do you really think that your comment added anything worthwile to the discussion? Do you sincerely believe that your comment helped to improve the HN community?
How many comments like yours does it take to drive away people that try to make thoughtful comments that benefit the community (I believe many have already left).
I used to come to HN to not only find interesting links, but to read well balanced critiques of software/processes/programming paradigms, and overall great insight from people that actually put care and effort into their comments. It seems these times are gone for good.
- dang 11y agoWhen you see a comment breaking the HN guidelines that egregiously, please flag it by clicking on its timestamp to go to its item page, then clicking 'flag'. That comment was actually killed by user flags pretty quickly, but for some reason it didn't display as such. There must be a bug. We'll fix it. Edit: we fixed it.
- madez 11y agoThank you for the information and the fast reaction. However, I'm also worried about the state of the quality of comments on HN. You see puns and non-serious comments on many places. Downvotes are misused to block controversial but serious, respectful and constructive discussions. HN feels too much like reddit.
- antocv 11y agoThe content is bad, then the comments will become bad. Fix the real issue, why did OP submit the piece of shit website that it is, on HN? Throw enough of crap on HN and downvote button will not be enough, when the selection to be done is among bad and worse? In fact, the OP website is so bad, the best comment that could ever be is still "fuck your website" dressed in nicer words.