Tell HN: I'm so sick of this

Posted by drnooo on Sunday October 06, 2013 @08:43PM
from the self-post dept.

I've been a member since the mid 2000s under one name or another- usually when I get embarassed about a comment I made or want to limit how many comments with certain types of info are grouped together by username at least, I'll create a new user. I've quite HN like 5 times it seems. Now I'm quitting again.

The population on HN has absolutely no sense of humor. Not trying to be mean, but I think HN is a lot farther on the autism spectrum than I care for. It's more intelligent than slashdot, but I don't think PG or others that help manage it really realize how much downvoting is abused.

I waste TOO much time here and am creating NOTHING. NOTHING at all. I have no idea why I'm even telling you all any of this, either. Goodbye.

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Re:Tell HN: I'm so sick of this by benologist on Sunday October 06, 2013 @09:05PM (#6506097)

Yes people should lighten up, and then when joke threads are always the top comment, novelty accounts are always expected, tech news becomes whatever Engadget and Gizmodo are plagiarizing, meme-images become upvoted comments, and the 'leaders' list gets dislodged by IFuckedYourMom and CitationNeeded, in that order, we can reflect back on why letting funny comments become normal isn't such an awesome idea.

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Re:Tell HN: I'm so sick of this by t0 on Sunday October 06, 2013 @08:57PM (#6506078)

The upvote-only strategy works really well for submissions. I'm curious if it would work with comments too.

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Re:Tell HN: I'm so sick of this by wulfgarpro on Sunday October 06, 2013 @09:27PM (#6506146)

"I've quite HN like 5 times it seems. Now I'm quitting again."

Quite != quit. lts.

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