If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault (2011)

Re:If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault (2011) by joombaga on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @04:46PM (#10890649)

Markdown style links (like reddit uses, and like you used above) do not work on Hacker News.

There are few options for formatting. [1]

Above is an example of how HN users typically link. The "[1]" above will correspond to the first in a list of numbered links at the end of this comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

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Re:If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault (2011) by aaronbrethorst on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @05:32PM (#10890915)

I think the GP might have been making a joke about text formatting on HN.

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Re:If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault (2011) by danieltillett on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @06:59PM (#10891354)

Possibly as the GP has been member here for a long time, but they have a very low karma so they probably don’t post very often and may be unaware of what works and does not work here.

HN is a really interesting UX that appears to be deliberately designed to be difficult for new users to keep the signal to noise high. At least that is my charitable interpretation.

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Re:If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault (2011) by aaronbrethorst on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:45PM (#10892031)

When the responsive'ish design for HN was unveiled by dang some months back, he indicated that this is not actually the case. Whether this was ever the case is a question to which I don't have an answer. At this point, I think it's just tech debt, unfortunately :-\

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Re:If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault (2011) by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:44PM (#10892028)

That is exactly the design decision behind HN's bare-bones design, as said by pg somewhere (I don't remember where, but there's an explicit statement about it).

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