I wonder if HN would benefit from a [serious] tag the way some subreddits use it. Though, if OP could give a longer description of why they're running such a poll (I guess to see the demographics) I would expect more people to answer seriously rather than give low effort/joke responses.
I think the serious tag is implied on HN. The people trolling the poll aren't doing so because they don't know it is intended to be serious, they're doing it because they don't care, and can get away with it (unlike with comments).
Hacker News is pretty serious compared to most social media, and I love that. Which makes some rare harmless comments or posts like this one actually good to encounter once in a while.
The seriousness-to-joke ratio of this site is just perfect in my opinion.
Oh yeah I definitely agree that the jokes here are quite tolerable compared to most/all other sites.
It's just that a lot of joke answers early on in the life of a post may make other users who may otherwise seriously respond, look at the responses and go "Aah it's a joke post/it's filled with joke responses, better not waste my time". Consequently the post may not see many upvotes and die out quickly.
In comparison, a post like this has the potential to easily get a few 100 upvotes with good discussions on the (changing/constant etc) demographics. But if a lot of initial responses are jokey in nature we may lose out on that.
> If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the “Fuck you” signs in the world. It’s impossible.
> It was so nice and peaceful. Then, all of a sudden, you’d never guess what I saw on the wall. Another “Fuck you.” It was written with a red crayon or something, right under the glass part of the wall, under the stones. That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and write “Fuck you” right under your nose.
I think that's also the point that J. D. Salinger may have been trying to make here.
Peace is a good, well constructed, true and correct data set. There is no peace. One must always correct for the lack of peace.
In any survey of humans, there will be some small percentage of the responders who are in a mood to just tweak the system. Distinguishing them from people who genuinely hold marginal beliefs (fake moon landing, flat earth) or even from people who socially adopt positions that they don't really believe (Jesus is returning in 2032, Kim Il Sung is guiding our leadership to victory) is often difficult.
Well a similar thing happened with roughly the same poll like 10 years ago. Moderation on this site has improved but it’s still grown a lot and there aren’t really consequences for lying here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734
I wonder if HN would benefit from a [serious] tag the way some subreddits use it. Though, if OP could give a longer description of why they're running such a poll (I guess to see the demographics) I would expect more people to answer seriously rather than give low effort/joke responses.
I think the serious tag is implied on HN. The people trolling the poll aren't doing so because they don't know it is intended to be serious, they're doing it because they don't care, and can get away with it (unlike with comments).
NAK.
Hacker News is pretty serious compared to most social media, and I love that. Which makes some rare harmless comments or posts like this one actually good to encounter once in a while.
The seriousness-to-joke ratio of this site is just perfect in my opinion.
Oh yeah I definitely agree that the jokes here are quite tolerable compared to most/all other sites.
It's just that a lot of joke answers early on in the life of a post may make other users who may otherwise seriously respond, look at the responses and go "Aah it's a joke post/it's filled with joke responses, better not waste my time". Consequently the post may not see many upvotes and die out quickly.
In comparison, a post like this has the potential to easily get a few 100 upvotes with good discussions on the (changing/constant etc) demographics. But if a lot of initial responses are jokey in nature we may lose out on that.
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Maybe all posts should be regarded as serious by default unless they have a [joke] or whatever tag.
The fact that the ranges include ages > 105 and that there are many answers to it just makes the post some kind of spam.
IKR, what a waste of an 8th bit, when a 7-bit integer would have met the requirements. Software bloat has reached new extremes.
If you give people power, they'll use it to fuck with it.
- Boaty McBoat Face
From The Catcher in the Rye:
> If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the “Fuck you” signs in the world. It’s impossible.
> It was so nice and peaceful. Then, all of a sudden, you’d never guess what I saw on the wall. Another “Fuck you.” It was written with a red crayon or something, right under the glass part of the wall, under the stones. That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and write “Fuck you” right under your nose.
I think that's also the point that J. D. Salinger may have been trying to make here.
Peace is a good, well constructed, true and correct data set. There is no peace. One must always correct for the lack of peace.
Probably u8 underflow from time travelers and unborn babies visiting the site.
I think it's all the humans in reptile shape that can live up to 250 years old filling in their real age. Proof David Icke is right!
"Lizardman’s Constant Is 4%"
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
edit: as of right now 105-255 is sitting at 3.6%, which is pretty close to the constant of 4%.
In any survey of humans, there will be some small percentage of the responders who are in a mood to just tweak the system. Distinguishing them from people who genuinely hold marginal beliefs (fake moon landing, flat earth) or even from people who socially adopt positions that they don't really believe (Jesus is returning in 2032, Kim Il Sung is guiding our leadership to victory) is often difficult.
Well a similar thing happened with roughly the same poll like 10 years ago. Moderation on this site has improved but it’s still grown a lot and there aren’t really consequences for lying here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734
Everyone's converting to Greenland shark years.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37047168
It's a big enough age range so people probably think it's a joke answer. And because you can vote multiple times, there's no harm in voting it.
Is this the "lizardman constant" showing up?
Why am I not surprised.
That's the "you insensitive clod" option.