Meta HN: About the quality of discussion or rather the lack therof

Post by quickthrower2 » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:44 AM UTC

yesenadam wrote: post #39

jnordwick wrote: post #11

Group think is getting worse. If you have a minority opinion it is more difficult to avoid the bottom of the heap, the standards for a post rise dramatically, and even then there is no guarantee. Sometimes you comments will hit the negatives regardless. ( Edit: heres my latest -2 comment which i really don't understand https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16401221 ) There are some sacred cow on HN too that you cannot…

Hehe I had a look at your comment.. It started: "Not new. Only read the first and last page if the paper.." And you have no idea why that might be downvoted? I don't think you can have tried to understand. Maybe the downvoters got no further than me (i.e. the bit I quoted) which already has arrogance, ignorance, carelessness—or so it seems—and had already had enough.

Post by jnordwick » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 8:18 PM UTC

yesenadam wrote: post #42

quickthrower2 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite ironic "I didn't read the whole paper but..." "I didn't read your whole comment but I got to that bit and I downvoted you!"

Hehe yeah. Hypocritical , you mean maybe. At least I didn't say there was nothing new, and I restricted my..criticism to the bit I actually read. But I'll upvote that. :-)