Re:How I Almost Lost Every Family Photo I Have
by zacinbusiness on Sunday October 06, 2013 @05:39PM
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I do dislike the community system on HN. It rewards inflammatory posts and trolling rather than reasonable and rational discussion. And for that matter, it rewards sensationalistic posts.
I think the main issue is that HN is a really high profile community, and with that you get stupid people like these "1st world haters."
Re:How I Almost Lost Every Family Photo I Have
by mikeash on Sunday October 06, 2013 @05:55PM
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It's especially asinine because it implies that third-worlders don't care about family photos. What, you think that just because their standard of living is lower, they don't feel the attraction of visual media of their loved ones?
I get the impression that a lot of people who comment on this site don't comprehend how anyone who isn't a relatively wealthy programmer actually lives. Anyone who doesn't make at least $60,000/year is engaged in a daily struggle to survive and can't possibly have time to care about things like photos of their mother, apparently.
A family thought they lost a lifetime's worth of photos and cherished memories? Easy to make a snarky comment about first world problems and watch that number increase.
pg: if you read comments like that, do you ever regret not giving downvote access earlier? I feel that having top-rated comments be so unremittingly negative (and frankly dickish) hurts HNs image.