I know exactly how you feel, I'm sort of embarrassed by the fact that I only (somewhat) recently signed up because of it.
I'm trying to change and start commenting more, so here I am.
Ask HN: How Many of You Are Like Me?
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#112One of the first posts I've commented on even though I read too many posts here. :)
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#113First comment.
This is why we need downvotes.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you serious? Have you worked in a board room at a Fortune 500 company? Most CEOs and executives don't have time to compose grammatically-error-free responses. Do you know how Steve Jobs writes? Now multiply that across 500 organizations of the biggest corporations in America and the shoddy writing will certainly shock you if you think "people are less likely to take a comment seriously" because their sentences ar…
Being CEO of a Fortune 500 is such a strong signal of competence that you don't need any others. Ad hominem is useful in the real world because one's credibility impacts the probability that what they say is accurate.
I agree. It might sometimes be a status thing, as in, "I'm so important that I don't need to spellcheck my emails to you."
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#115I only comment occasionally. I comment even less on other sites I frequent, like reddit (before I quit), lesswrong and ribbonfarm. I normally only comment when I have a point I really want to make, and no-one else has made that point already.
I'd guess there's a lot of people like you - most online communities have a very disproportionate amount of lurkers.
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#116OK, I read HN a lot, comment and post a bit more than 'some'.
But lately I was thinking about this quote.
Information is not knowledge. ~Einstein
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'd have better success if you showed some respect for your readers by capitalizing and writing your posts in a normal style. Starting off with "lol" and an emoticon marks you as somebody who hasn't thought about what he is about to write, and who doesn't care to present his thoughts to the reader in an organized manner. In your comment history, other posts have it worse, and your writing style and mannerisms make…
> You'd have better success if you showed some respect for your readers by capitalizing and writing your posts in a normal style. Starting off with "lol" and an emoticon marks you as somebody who hasn't thought about what he is about to write, and who doesn't care to present his thoughts to the reader in an organized manner. That is the biggest pile of bs I have ever read. Just because he starts his posts with a lol,…
Yes, the value you add. But there are semantics for this addition. Consider yourself contributing to an Open Source software. There are semantics and rules used by the contributors, this makes reading old code easier and possible.
The same is for HN, the community has rules for posting, even though they are not mentioned in the guide lines. It would be better to follow them. Just an example, in some communities, bad words are considered to be normal. Would you be happy if someone throw a word like that at you? After all it's his culture, no? But this is not the HN culture.
We value difference and we want to know your point of view, but there are simple rules for communication. That's it.
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#119Are you serious ? "I've learned more from the community than I did during my $100,000 MBA from the University of Chicago." You weren't out meeting people and making awesome connections? You didn't build relationships with the brilliant professors? I am shocked by the content of your post. What have you learned on Hacker News? And then what did you learn at Booth? I would pay to read that write-up.
Some people do waste their time in grad school. I had a friend who took out loans to go to Columbia's J-school, went 60k in debt and two years later found himself back in the job he left. He passed up the one offer he managed to cultivate in order to be closer to a woman he dumped a few months down the road.
Years later he's in a job that he could have worked his way into by now, except a large chunk of his (disappointing) salary goes toward his loans.
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#120Are you serious ? "I've learned more from the community than I did during my $100,000 MBA from the University of Chicago." You weren't out meeting people and making awesome connections? You didn't build relationships with the brilliant professors? I am shocked by the content of your post. What have you learned on Hacker News? And then what did you learn at Booth? I would pay to read that write-up.
My issue with the formal academic training is that it teaches you to be an academic, not a practitioner. I feel that if you want to learn how to start a company, then start a company. If you want to become an academic, go to school. Now, I'm probably a rare case because I grew up in management consulting and have been an entrepreneur since I was 8 years old so I feel that it's not the education that's important, it's…
Business school culminating in an MBA is hardly formal academic training.