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Re:Why kernel development still uses email (2016) by AndyMcConachie on Saturday September 30, 2017 @01:22PM (#15373897)
I have no idea why you're downvoted. Email is great especially because it's an open standard. I don't understand why people expect Linux kernel development to adopt some kind of proprietary platform for communications. I think it's a terrible idea.
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Re:Why kernel development still uses email (2016) by digi_owl on Saturday September 30, 2017 @01:52PM (#15374069)
On that note, a while back while browsing f-droid i noticed someone working on a email based IM app.

Never mind that "text messaging" in say Japan has been email based since virtually forever, since the SMS standard had issues with Japanese script.

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Re:Why kernel development still uses email (2016) by abiox on Saturday September 30, 2017 @02:58PM (#15374447)
trashing a community doesn't often get upvotes. perhaps if you were really funny or clever about it.
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Re:Why kernel development still uses email (2016) by abiox on Saturday September 30, 2017 @02:56PM (#15374440)
btw "echo chamber" is generally perceived as disparaging, so it's not weird people wouldn't be impressed by that. and feigning victimhood after antagonizing people is pretty gauche.
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Re:Why kernel development still uses email (2016) by na85 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @04:48PM (#15374907)
It was intended to be disparaging: one of my major beefs with this community is the massive culture of groupthink and aggressive self reinforcement/adulation.
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Re:Why kernel development still uses email (2016) by abiox on Saturday September 30, 2017 @05:57PM (#15375191)
> It was intended to be disparaging

and thus your thesis of 'HN doesn't like to be reminded' falls to the simpler explanation of 'trashtalk usually gets downvoted'.

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Re:Why kernel development still uses email (2016) by na85 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @08:20PM (#15375723)
Perhaps.

I prefer to see it as the down votes reaffirming that I am correct.

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Re:Why kernel development still uses email (2016) by gsich on Saturday September 30, 2017 @08:53PM (#15375826)
you are correct. if people get triggered by someone using the word "echo chamber" they are probably in one. It's hard to admit, I know.
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Re:Why kernel development still uses email (2016) by abiox on Sunday October 01, 2017 @11:27AM (#15378269)
what do you mean by "get triggered"? if someone downvotes trashtalk, does it necessarily mean they "got triggered"? are there other explanations?
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Re:Why kernel development still uses email (2016) by gsich on Sunday October 01, 2017 @01:42PM (#15378888)
Yes. Because it wasn't trashtalk. HN in generel seems (from what I observe) like a place that uses fancy apps for communication instead of emails. So if someone claims that HN doesn't like emails and get downvoted for that, they got triggered.
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