Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community

Re:Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN comm... by llm_trw on Thursday July 25, 2024 @08:22PM (#41074845)

The social web died, all you're doing it making pitchfork and torch 2.0 for mobs.

If you want to add value and not bloody public spectacle rank comments instead of users.

I have a bunch of low quality posts here when idiots piss me off, but also share world first research and breakthroughs I've been involved with the rare time the counter party is worth talking to.

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Re:Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN comm... by codetrotter on Friday July 26, 2024 @02:14AM (#41076189)

> rank comments instead of users

> I have a bunch of low quality posts here when idiots piss me off

It’s ironic because in the second of the parts I quoted you on here you are basically yourself generalizing the users instead of the comments.

Is it really “idiots” that piss you off (the users)? Or is it the specific things they said in isolated cases (the comments) that piss you off? Wasn’t your point exactly that this kind of distinction is important?

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Re:Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN comm... by llm_trw on Friday July 26, 2024 @02:23AM (#41076237)

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Re:Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN comm... by tharkun__ on Friday July 26, 2024 @08:16AM (#41077971)

And the OP here seems to willfully ignore the main point his parent was making. He said that not having this focus on a "social layer" made HN better. But then OP says:

    We're thinking we could uplevel the social layer

head => palm

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