Comment by mulmen
3 years ago
If you felt you needed to post this question you should step away from the site and maybe the internet. HN posts aren’t important. None of this matters. Take care of yourself.
3 years ago
If you felt you needed to post this question you should step away from the site and maybe the internet. HN posts aren’t important. None of this matters. Take care of yourself.
> If you felt you needed to post this question you should step away from the site and maybe the internet.
Would you mind reading up on the word "gatekeeping" so I don't have to elaborate it here? :)
> HN posts aren’t important. None of this matters. Take care of yourself.
HN is the only place where it is possible to talk to the people who build the tech infrastructure which dominates and changes our daily lives.
Try talking to e.g. a human at Google elsewhere, it's just not possible.
Internet politics is made here.
Wow, what an amazing combination of statements. You're blowing my mind actually.
> Try talking to e.g. a human at Google elsewhere, it's just not possible.
100% yes - being willing to be a human at the end of (almost) every communication is the thing that matters most to us in terms of HN moderation.
> HN is the only place where it is possible to talk to the people who build the tech infrastructure which dominates and changes our daily lives.
Here I start to lose the connection. I don't feel like HN admins are building that. We're just trying to run a web forum. It's true that YC owns HN and YC invests (or tries to!) in the most important world-changing startups, but there are several layers of indirection between us and that.
> Internet politics is made here.
Oh god that sounds absolutely awful. Let's not and say we did?
> Wow, what an amazing combination of statements. You're blowing my mind actually.
I'm not sure if that was meant to sound positive? :|
> > HN is the only place where it is possible to talk to the people who build the tech infrastructure which dominates and changes our daily lives.
> Here I start to lose the connection. I don't feel like HN admins are building that. We're just trying to run a web forum. It's true that YC owns HN and YC invests (or tries to!) in the most important world-changing startups, but there are several layers of indirection between us and that.
> > Internet politics is made here.
> Oh god that sounds absolutely awful. Let's not and say we did?
Oh I was not talking about what HN intends to be, but rather about what it factually is just by the question of who hangs out here.
Factually, it's the place with the highest probability of FAANG people hanging out that I know of.
So as a "civilian", here I have the highest chance to get heard by them.
And here they discuss new technologies and all kinds of aspects of technology which affect people, *and* their opinions on how things should be get influenced here, so this is the "political" aspect.
Sure, they are not legally entitled to decide Internet law, but the way their software works has consequences which can be considered as political and even as "the law" in terms of areas where there is no governmental regulation yet.
Thus HN is the place where a regular person has the highest chance to influence Internet "politics".
And to get to the point: That's why it is so annoying to get locked out of it. It feels kind of similar of losing a small part of Internet "voting" rights.
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You’re attributing way too much value to a HN post. Please, take a break and clear your mind of HN.
Thanks but I think how I allocate my personal time is my personal decision to make ;)
I was asking simple factual questions - e.g. the numerical value of "too fast". So I would appreciate if it could be answered primarily in a numerical fashion, not with life advice.
Rest assured that I do take care of my mental health in a fashion which I deem appropriate.
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There is literally no gatekeeping, the guy is just giving you an absolutely sane advice.
Go out and go bang chicks or whatever. Politics do not matter
And even if they did, no googler or whatver cares about HN comments. Like none at all. HN is just a news aggregator