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Don't take this as negative but your post reads more like a rant than a question. Which contradicts the "Ask" tag. Edit: To address your "question", no HN hasn

by noobie 11y ago

Don't take this as negative but your post reads more like a rant than a question. Which contradicts the "Ask" tag. Edit: To address your "question", no HN hasn't become a negative place. A simple read throughout the comments of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628682 will show the great sense of human empathy that thread reflects. There, an example and a counter-example, until someone runs a full analysis of the "negativity" of HN, we can safely say HN is "neutral" :p

jeswin 11y ago
Not taking this as negative, and I agree it was partly a rant. Maybe I should remove the Ask HN tag? But again, it's not a non-question either. Negativity is a general sentiment I've often seen within threads these days and it probably needs to be looked at. This forum should encourage people building new stuff. While the quality of submissions may not have gone down over the years, the negativity has certainly gone up. ADD: To answer your edit. > To address your "question", no HN hasn't become a negative place. A simple read throughout the comments of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628682 will show the great sense of human empathy that thread reflects. That's a totally different type of article and I wouldn't be surprised if comments are supportive when someone is struggling with cancer. Not saying we've devolved into that level of inhumaneness. Not at all. OTOH, discouraging people who build stuff (and try to share what they have built) is my central point.
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DanBC 11y ago
I've noticed a lot more bad natured bickering over the past week. I think this is just me noticing it more rather than an actual rise. Here's one example but there are lots. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624703
- zeeed 11y ago
  Same sentiment here, thanks to OP for voicing it. I was taken abash by some personal attacks, the most recent being the thread about airbnb and the nyc eviction/blacklisting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622711
zeeed 11y ago
> until someone runs a full analysis of the "negativity" of HN, we can safely say HN is "neutral" :p I'm not completely certain that lack of a full analyis implies neutrality :)

by noobie 11y ago

jeswin 11y ago

Not taking this as negative, and I agree it was partly a rant. Maybe I should remove the Ask HN tag? But again, it's not a non-question either. Negativity is a general sentiment I've often seen within threads these days and it probably needs to be looked at. This forum should encourage people building new stuff. While the quality of submissions may not have gone down over the years, the negativity has certainly gone up. ADD: To answer your edit. > To address your "question", no HN hasn't become a negative place. A simple read throughout the comments of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628682 will show the great sense of human empathy that thread reflects. That's a totally different type of article and I wouldn't be surprised if comments are supportive when someone is struggling with cancer. Not saying we've devolved into that level of inhumaneness. Not at all. OTOH, discouraging people who build stuff (and try to share what they have built) is my central point.

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DanBC 11y ago

I've noticed a lot more bad natured bickering over the past week. I think this is just me noticing it more rather than an actual rise. Here's one example but there are lots. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624703

zeeed 11y ago
Same sentiment here, thanks to OP for voicing it. I was taken abash by some personal attacks, the most recent being the thread about airbnb and the nyc eviction/blacklisting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622711

zeeed 11y ago

> until someone runs a full analysis of the "negativity" of HN, we can safely say HN is "neutral" :p I'm not completely certain that lack of a full analyis implies neutrality :)