But hey, I've been here for 15 years, and forum cultures change over time. I wouldn't overindex on my feelings.
I'm rooting for the fediverse, hopefully it (and youtube) can contain the effect.
Yea, because YouTube comments are famously bastion of intelligent, relevant discussion.
Yea, because YouTube comments are famously a bastion of intelligent, relevant discussion.
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
Personally I think it’s a little suspicious that there are HN users who appear to be attempting to discredit or silence comments praising the efficacy of a proven anti-vampire technology.
The evidence provided for this is example comments from 10+ years ago complaining that HN was becoming Reddit way back then.
However, Reddit 10+ years ago was very different from Reddit today. It is arguably(?) much worse today.
HN may be turning into Reddit continuously, it's just that Reddit keeps moving the goal posts.
As if HN is some sort of intellectual silver snowflake and apparently better than Reddit. It's actually not. But I guess it's not worse either. Isn't that nice?
The average HN discussion is more substantive and on-topic than the average reddit thread, especially a default one.
As for on-topic - HN starts talking about Kotlin and Swift and pretty soon it’s discussing relatively theory and Madam Curie and what not on the same thread. And no, that’s not better and that’s not on-topic unless HN tries to define its own “on-topic” and it’s own “better” and then applies it to Reddit.
> Define 'better'
No, I won’t. Because yours would ne different from mine.
2) People have been saying this since approximately day one of HN; it's this site's equivalent to social decay / "kids these days", which is a sentiment that dates back to antiquity.
How would you otherwise recognize a vampire incident it one were to happen?
(That's also historically the first recorded incident of organizational rage-quit after losing the game to a cheese strategy.)
Have you considered a career with Homeland Security?
Well - now they no longer need to hide themselves away, they are hiding-in-plain sight...
Almost. I'm Polish, so I know how to pronounce "Bytów", but I got confused for a moment if maybe I didn't know hot to say "bit" in English…
Wiktionary says "bit" is pronounced as [bit] using IPA.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bit
Wiktionary also says "Bytów" is pronounced as IPA: [ˈbɨtuf], AS: [bytuf].
You can listen to it here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Pl-Byt%C...
London, South African, Southern American "lip" is one example of this vowel: