Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive

Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by gimboland on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @02:48PM (#23314975)

And Hacker News!

> some hidden human need/instinct to argue with people who they believe are incorrect

I've said it before, I'll probably say it again: this place is chock full of people just itching to tell you you're wrong and why. Don't get me wrong: obviously there's also a hell of a lot of great discussion and insightful technical knowhow being shared by real experts — but in my experience I also do have to wade through quite a lot of what feels like knee-jerk pedantry and point-scoring.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by mac01021 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:02PM (#23315141)

I, for one, wouldn't have it any other way!

When I'm wrong I want it explained to me why. Even when I'm right about something controversial, I want to see the best arguments to the contrary.

I don't want people to be less argumentative. I just want a higher intellectual caliber than what's generally available on facebook or twitter, and HN fits the bill reasonably well.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by downerending on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:16PM (#23315302)

It's tricky. One has to learn how to disagree without being disagreeable.

Or, get your fuck-you billions and people will start agreeing with you a lot. :-)

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by mywittyname on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:33PM (#23315488)

When people here tell you that you're wrong, they tend to do it with style.

One time I made a comment about how dividends affect stock price and someone spent like 2 hours writing a program in R to do some analysis just to prove me wrong.

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