Comment by rectang
3 days ago
From the Hacker News Guidelines:
"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."
3 days ago
From the Hacker News Guidelines:
"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."
It seems like this discussion is full of shallow dismissals and smug takes though. See the sister comment to yours.
In my experience, those get downvoted or flagged (they also aren't in line with the guidelines). Let alone shallow dismissals, even good Reddit-esque short, pithy jokes often get downvoted, because a discussion thread where everybody's just trying to be funny doesn't tend to lead to where most HN participants want to go.
Talking about downvoting also violates the guidelines (meta-discussions are boring and repetitive), so this comment could arguably succumb, haha. If so, it won't be the first or the last time a comment of mine gets poorly received!
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