84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’

Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by dkroy on Monday September 07, 2020 @10:52AM (#24399797)

Wow, I did not expect clickbait to make its way to the number 1 spot on HN. I would be curious to see if this was due to some someone gaming the algorithm or people carelessly upvoting the headline. Though it is a bit funny that the platform that clickbait is most prevalent on is part of the topic of discussion. Youtube subscribers in this case = Grandkids in the title.

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by tbrake on Monday September 07, 2020 @10:58AM (#24399842)

> Youtube subscribers in this case = Grandkids in the title.

Yeah, everyone got that. Immediately. In terms of inferential leaps I have to make every day that wasn't even a bunny hop. Why do you think it needs to be brought to trial at the Hague?

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by dkroy on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:09AM (#24399920)

The fact the majority of the discussion is about that title, and not the content of the article has me thinking that not everyone got that immediately.

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by ReactiveJelly on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:33AM (#24400091)

I didn't get it immediately. It wasted my time while I read the comments to figure out the joke.

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by onion2k on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:17AM (#24399981)

I did not expect clickbait to make its way to the number 1 spot on HN.

I upvoted the story because I found it interesting. Hearing about someone being successful at something is great, and for them to be successful at something you wouldn't necessarily expect is even better. The implication that I, or any of the other ~50 people who voted for this story, am being 'careless' by upvoting something I like is wholly unfair. I don't have to vote based on what you think should be at the top of the front page. HN is not a carefully curated list of stories that dkroy might like.

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by Stratoscope on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:05AM (#24399894)

900,000 followers on YouTube.

75,000 followers on Twitter.

7,000 followers on Instagram.

Bethesda is making her a character in the Skyrim sequel.

She's 84.

I thought this was interesting and charming and quite inspiring.

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by scott31 on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:03AM (#24399887)

Looking at OP's history, he seems to like sharing clickbait titles on HN. I am assuming he really wants to gather internet points

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by iso8859-1 on Monday September 07, 2020 @10:59AM (#24399860)

Old users have not upvoted this, I recommend sticking to Hacker News Classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by paulintrognon on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:06AM (#24399902)

Thanks for that hidden feature. And there's no ads aswell! Do you know what is the difference in the algorithm? They just count "old users" votes? How long do you need to have an account for to be considered old?

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by dang on Monday September 07, 2020 @02:12PM (#24401292)

It's the same algorithm as the regular front page, with the difference that the votes are those by users before Feb 13, 2008. A long time ago! It wasn't such a distant past when pg created it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271.

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by iso8859-1 on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:51AM (#24400216)

I don't know the answer to any of your questions, but you could try asking in an issue on https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by everdrive on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:01AM (#24399868)

Oh geez. This view is sure better, but the fact that it's needed indicates that hn is jumping the shark.

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by dang on Monday September 07, 2020 @02:14PM (#24401304)

HN has always been jumping the shark.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by paulintrognon on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:10AM (#24399937)

Or we can just be gratefull there's a solution for everyone's tastes instead of fighting about who's opinion is best :)

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Re:84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’ by gspr on Monday September 07, 2020 @10:54AM (#24399813)

Come on, they even put "grandkids" in quotes.

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