Comment by twerkmonsta
10 years ago
Most of these are incredibly accurate parodies of HN. As someone who reads HN every day, these are making me cry laughing.
10 years ago
Most of these are incredibly accurate parodies of HN. As someone who reads HN every day, these are making me cry laughing.
I wonder how they got to know their material so well...
I wonder too !
HN community VS 4chan community ? Really ? What if we'd stop pretending for just 1 sec, and just admit that many, many people are just the same here and there ? Where does this lead ? As many here pretend to play the game, and play hardly, because they're aware of the rules, at least a small part of them, deep in their brain, also hate it. The feeling that most of time, crazy VC and tech race just lead nowhere is real. The worm is in the fruit already, and really, I'm pleased to record so.
Anyone who actually believes there isn't a significant overlap between the communities of 4chan, Reddit and Hacker News just isn't paying attention.
Yeah, and also the stupid 4chan racism and constant fear of "SJW"s.
The complaints about "SJWs", while indelicately phrased, aren't completely off-base. Hacker News has gotten way more PC over the past 5 years, much to its detriment. I remember what the site was like before the big reddit influx in 2010, and the actual political center wasn't that different, but the quality of discussion was a lot higher. People were forthright, analytical, and thorough. Conversation wasn't so prone to being dominated by groupthink, memes, and keeping up appearances.
Some of this doesn't come from HN itself but from the overall tech culture. But I think a big part of the story is that the site saw a massive expansion in users, thus becoming more generic and "public", meaning people have to be a bit more reflexive about what they say on here. When your audience is a trusted community of people with a shared understanding of the rights and protections that discussion participants grant to one another, you can cut through the bullshit a lot easier.
I've observed that the SJW hive think has skyrocketed over the last year on HN. I used to be able to predict ridicule in the comments, but instead I find pandering and PC nonsense. It's pretty depressing overall.