Most of the times I read something with "Show HN", I see lots of hate and negative energy in the comments. These people are hungry for appreciation as they spent months building their product/tool/startup. Why don't we give them a helpful criticism while support them?
Ask HN: Why the Hacker News community is always hating on new ideas?
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#2The negativity became dominant post-PG. Unfortunately and disappointingly.
[added] To elaborate: his regular essays were thought-provoking and challenging, in a way that generally drove HN commenters to think and contribute. Nowadays there is a discouraging excess of emoting and belittling, even though the moderators have stepped up their nudges and interventions.
Re: Ask HN: Why the Hacker News community is always hating on new ideas?
#3My perception is the opposite. Someone would honestly have to do an analysis of Show HNs to figure out whose perception is correct. My suspicion is that it doesn't skew strongly one way or the other.
Re: Ask HN: Why the Hacker News community is always hating on new ideas?
#4I think it is the case unless a product is free / open source ?
Re: Ask HN: Why the Hacker News community is always hating on new ideas?
#5The negativity became dominant post-PG. Unfortunately and disappointingly. [added] To elaborate: his regular essays were thought-provoking and challenging, in a way that generally drove HN commenters to think and contribute. Nowadays there is a discouraging excess of emoting and belittling, even though the moderators have stepped up their nudges and interventions.
That isn't true, the most famous example of HN negativity is Show HN: Dropbox which has been reposted quite a few times on HN since dropbox became dropbox.
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#6Life lesson: People have hated on new ideas in every community since the dawn of time. Hacker news is not special in that regard. Just learn to deal with it by finding conviction in your ideas.
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#7Hitting the "show" link in the top nav and reading by date, the thing that struck me the most was not the "negative energy" but the lack of comments. A lot of people showing but apparently not so many paying attention. Some seem pretty nifty...
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#8The negativity became dominant post-PG. Unfortunately and disappointingly. [added] To elaborate: his regular essays were thought-provoking and challenging, in a way that generally drove HN commenters to think and contribute. Nowadays there is a discouraging excess of emoting and belittling, even though the moderators have stepped up their nudges and interventions.
That isn't true, the most famous example of HN negativity is Show HN: Dropbox which has been reposted quite a few times on HN since dropbox became dropbox. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625306
First, one swallow does not a summer make...
Second, I notice you joined in July 2013. Sam Altman took over in February 2014, and PG's retirement had started earlier, so I wonder how much you experienced of HN before post-PG.
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#9Byzantine fault tolerance and zero knowledge proofs, so cool! Oh it's being done by people using it for distributed ledgers? Boooo now we hate it
I've realized I have to broaden my news intake as even this community has it's collective blind spots
Re: Ask HN: Why the Hacker News community is always hating on new ideas?
#10I don’t read Show HN much, but I wonder how much of that hate and negativity is just plain objective criticism that it merely perceived negatively by some. On the internet, if you don’t use smileys or polite language, you sometimes seem negative even if you just make normal observations or ask logical questions. That’s just how anonymous online communication is, unfortunately.