Comment by FirmwareBurner
4 days ago
>but the apparent reason for many, many flags here is that the content is unoriginal.
Unoriginal to who? What's unoriginal to you might be original to someone else. So your justification for flagging only reinforces the groupthink argument even if you don't realize it.
While it's all subjective, other social networks are literally full of memes. Memes are unpopular on HN.
Better to have groupthink that is hostile to groupthink than to have memes.
I disagree. If a picture is worth more than a thousand words then a meme is worth more than a thousand groupthink slop comments.
I would explain why I think you're wrong, but I'm feeling lazy so please instead pretend that I just quoted you while posting a soyjack meme.
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Let's say HN were full of edgy comments, memes and flame wars.
Some people would like that version of HN more, others less. I probably would close my account.
There might not be a version of this site that would please everybody.
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