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Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Since it was missing there I realized how am I overusing '[-]' instead of scrolling. Like Tarzan swing on vines. (Also is this relavant or am I just piggy-backing your top comment?)

Wow. I just realized the [-] feature. This changes everything about HN!

And I just realized “root|parent|prev|next” despite being ride or die with [-]

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Unrealistic. Not a single person complained about link not working with JavaScript disabled.

Or about how React bloatware introduces tens of petabytes of completely unnecessary dependencies, is destroying the Web, a perfectly-designed hypertext platform for linking documents together for reading on all manner of devices from screenreaders to Braille interfaces and toaster ovens.

Nodding along .... - “oh shit this is a parody thread”

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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> Here's a long detailed, objective explanation of everything related to this issue. It's probably more useful than the actual link and it may serve as one of the best efforts to consolidate information on this subject on the entire Internet. If it contains original research only a couple of readers will be qualified to tell. Half the people who upvote this won't understand more than the first two paragraphs. Exactly…

Absolutely. Sometimes you get a comment thread where some specialists add way more than “average” commenters could actually add. I like it because it gives insights in difficult subjects!

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Let's go a level further. Instead of banning/shadowbanning people just send it to shadow realm where all they see are bot created comments and bot created answers to what they comment

See also: heavenbanned https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1532076277947330561

Some video games already did something like that, except instead of AI they put you in match with other offenders, in sort of personal hell, then only let you out once you won some matches

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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Damn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea. Idea: Train an ai to construct entire threads based on the input of the title and link. There should be plenty of training material, and frankly I think it would be hilariously similar to the real threads. When new submissions are added to HN, the system will fetch the title and link, and predict the e…

> websites contain lots of text which is useless I'm honestly really curious about this. Could you elaborate?

Headers full of navigation. Sign up for my newsletter spam. Footers. The webpage isn't just "the document we're talking about", but an entire application most of the time.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since it was missing there I realized how am I overusing '[-]' instead of scrolling. Like Tarzan swing on vines. (Also is this relavant or am I just piggy-backing your top comment?)

Wow. I just realized the [-] feature. This changes everything about HN!

I call it the "minimize bullshit" feature. Reddit also has it.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

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It's missing a top-level post which makes an analogy, which turns into a ten-deep thread of people arguing entirely about the analogy, the friendly article having been completely forgotten.

I posted before on HN about this trend, of commenters often completely forgetting about the original article, and arguing a lot (in child comments) about some top-voted comment. I called it the Hacker News Right-Side Effect (or Rule) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405167

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