Comment by qup
2 years ago
If you do anti-abuse work, maybe you're the one with a wonky calibration. No offense intended, I appreciate your work.
I live on an Internet where I mainly don't have to see any abuse, thanks to moderation and algorithms and probably good folks like yourself.
Anyway, I think you're missing my point. Look around, here in situ on HN, and compare it to even an average quality comment.
Your theory is that because I have seen abusive content, my sense of humor is now so broken that the things I find funny are objectively bad? That makes no sense at all.
Also, it's wild to see that somebody who's been using this site about 4% of the time I have telling me that I just don't get the context.
Sure, bub. Your personal preferences just happen to be objectively correct, and mine are due to my ignorance and brokenness. Whatever you say.
> Your theory is that because I have seen abusive content, my sense of humor is now so broken that the things I find funny are objectively bad?
No, I did not present this theory, in my actual comment or any implication it made.
My theory is that if your job is dealing with abusive comments, perhaps you aren't judging the non-abusive comments properly in terms of what constitutes a bad comment. All kinds of bad comments can be funny. Jokes are generally considered bad comments here on HN, for instance.
I'll pass on the snark, have a good day my man.
Your theory was unclear. Don't get cranky when people do their best to interpret your lack of clarity.
I did not say my job is dealing with abusive comments. If it were, your theory would still make no sense; being a professional judge of content makes you better at evaluating content, not worse. Some jokes are considered bad comments here, many aren't. Which is irrelevant, because the comment you're grumping about was not a joke.
And I will note that you carefully dodged the heart of my point, which is that you are confusing your personal preferences with objective standards. And although you've quibbled in the neighborhood of the point quite a bit, you haven't addressed the ridiculous notion that these "are some of the worst kind of comments".
If you'd like to complain about bad HN comments, I'd say being querulous is not great, and then carefully avoiding dealing with substantive criticism is well worse.