You think being on this site gives you cred. That's why you personally identify yourself. You likely have your hn profile link on your resume or website etc. Hoping maybe this place will lead to something for you.
Clearly we don't agree on that. I don't even bother to turn off secret mode for this tripe.
Thank you malfist for proving my point. Lol
This is the toxic destruction of hn I'm talking about.
You are the toxic one. You offer negative value.
Click on my name you get nothing.
Yours is full of hope of someone reaching out to you. Mine is idgaf.
I don't need to defend the status quo. I don't want karma pOints.
I want integrity.
Prove it. Use your main account, you coward.
You are the toxicity I'm talking about. You've added zero value to the discussion. I've offered value.
You attack my account age and I've already said why it's not old.
Because idgaf.
We get exactly the same thing on hn, because it's the same people, the same culture, the same incentive structure, the same codified toxicity.
And the exact same thing is going to happen to hn. Already is. Already has, frankly.
It's just how sellout culture works. There's no integrity.[1]
SO failed because the founders had no integrity and HN is going to fail because the founders have no integrity.
Lacking integrity has short term benefits that sacrifice the long term.
From Good to great to failure.
Anyone else remwmber when Joel said he'd never sell SO and then this [1] happened? I remember.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/stack-overflow-sold-...
It goes even farther back to 2009 when Jeff sold out the benevolence incentive for self promotion to make money for himself thru SO.
https://blog.codinghorror.com/stack-overflow-careers-amplify... (be sure to read the comments)
The stated purpose of SO was that the expert sex change.com was making money off q&a and jeff and joel resented that.
And then the SO folks make their q&a site about making money.
No integrity. So the good people left and the toxic people stayed.
That's the root cause analysis.