3 ms·

Pro tips: * Be courteous when offering constructive criticism (that means, for example, don't swear at people) * Often it's not the project owners posting thi

by davedx 12y ago

Pro tips: * Be courteous when offering constructive criticism (that means, for example, don't swear at people) * Often it's not the project owners posting things on HN - many projects aren't necessarily ready for public consumption when they end up on here * This doesn't even appear to be a "product". It's an open source project that seems to have been recently put out there Absolutely typical that this is the top rated comment. Hacker News, you SUCK.

jackmaney 12y ago
> * Be courteous when offering constructive criticism (that means, for example, don't swear at people) This may shock you, but the internet wasn't fucking built for five year olds. > * Often it's not the project owners posting things on HN - many projects aren't necessarily ready for public consumption when they end up on here That doesn't mean that they aren't open to constructive criticism. > * This doesn't even appear to be a "product". It's an open source project that seems to have been recently put out there Fine. s/product/project/. Better? > Absolutely typical that this is the top rated comment. Hacker News, you SUCK. Language!
dalek_cannes 12y ago
Agreed. It's disturbing that there are so many members who are seemingly intelligent, but either haven't read the guidelines or think that guidelines don't apply to them.
- deleted 12y ago
  [deleted]
benihana 12y ago
>Hacker News, you SUCK. Very constructive and courteous.
dang 12y ago
> Absolutely typical that this is the top rated comment. Hacker News, you SUCK. Your other points are right (I winced at that "what the fuck your product is", and I bet most readers did), but this one isn't. Acerbic dismissals are a problem on HN, but they're far from "absolutely typical". The trouble with that false generalization is that it conditions us to see the community the wrong way. Repeat too often that a town doesn't care about litter, and more people will be careless with their trash. But users here do care. It's better to view this systemically, as a tragedy-of-the-commons problem that we all need to work on, than to make a big blaming judgment as if it were easy for things to be better. They should indeed be better—but it's not that easy. What is easy is to see it as everybody else's problem ("Hacker News, you suck"). In reality, anybody commenting on Hacker News is part of it, so we're talking about ourselves.

by davedx 12y ago

jackmaney 12y ago

> * Be courteous when offering constructive criticism (that means, for example, don't swear at people) This may shock you, but the internet wasn't fucking built for five year olds. > * Often it's not the project owners posting things on HN - many projects aren't necessarily ready for public consumption when they end up on here That doesn't mean that they aren't open to constructive criticism. > * This doesn't even appear to be a "product". It's an open source project that seems to have been recently put out there Fine. s/product/project/. Better? > Absolutely typical that this is the top rated comment. Hacker News, you SUCK. Language!

dalek_cannes 12y ago

Agreed. It's disturbing that there are so many members who are seemingly intelligent, but either haven't read the guidelines or think that guidelines don't apply to them.

deleted 12y ago
[deleted]

benihana 12y ago

>Hacker News, you SUCK. Very constructive and courteous.

dang 12y ago

> Absolutely typical that this is the top rated comment. Hacker News, you SUCK. Your other points are right (I winced at that "what the fuck your product is", and I bet most readers did), but this one isn't. Acerbic dismissals are a problem on HN, but they're far from "absolutely typical". The trouble with that false generalization is that it conditions us to see the community the wrong way. Repeat too often that a town doesn't care about litter, and more people will be careless with their trash. But users here do care. It's better to view this systemically, as a tragedy-of-the-commons problem that we all need to work on, than to make a big blaming judgment as if it were easy for things to be better. They should indeed be better—but it's not that easy. What is easy is to see it as everybody else's problem ("Hacker News, you suck"). In reality, anybody commenting on Hacker News is part of it, so we're talking about ourselves.