CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”

Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by spoils19 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:36PM (#31599547)

Can anyone help me understand why this comment is being downvoted? As a community I thought we were well against over-use of JavaScript, and we should be calling it out as necessary.

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Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by StevePerkins on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:54PM (#31599746)

I did not downvote this, but I would speculate that factors might include:

1. Poor reading comprehension (i.e. speaking in the present tense, about an implementation that's clearly described as a "predecessor" from 10-15 years ago?).

2. Unnecessary snark (i.e. one "is not surprised" that a web page used HTML and Javascript?).

3. The bizarre possibility that parent might be mistaking the website and the television broadcast, even though the original comment specifies "website banner". See factor #1 above.

4. You are grossly mistaken about there being an overwhelming consensus against Javascript? Or that snarky parent comment "calls it out" in an effective manner?

If I were to downvote, it would have been for #1.

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Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by stevage on Thursday June 02, 2022 @06:30PM (#31601351)

Wait, you can dovnvote? The app I use only upvotes

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Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by sofixa on Thursday June 02, 2022 @06:44PM (#31601496)

Depends on your karma too, past certain amounts you can downvote, flag, vouch (anti-flag).

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