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Some people may enter fake names, but asking for their first and last names at least sets expectations. As you've touched on, allowing people to find you on hacker news would also be a benefit.
Usernames consisting of people's first and last names feels corporate. It would be a bummer not to have any mechanical_fishes.
What about FirstnameLastinitial? E.g., I'd be Mikem, rather than nailer.
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#84From my experience posting, I'm learning more about what's acceptable, and sometimes I even delete a post that's dragging down my karma.
But more interesting - With the experience of posting here, I should be able to write a press release for my startup that appeals to hackers.
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#85I find that the site has definitely spread apart in it's values. And the real problem is as "undesireables" flood in, the people who are truer to the original culture get disgusted and back away.
As a personal (though perhaps not universal) example, see here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458256 , a +23 comment decrying the multi-page split of the article. See here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=398185 , my own comment railing against them wasting my time\effort like that.... modded down to -6.
I don't want to be a whiny nuisance about it, but when that happened it really alienated me from the community and quite frankly I don't think I've contributed much anything of value since. I felt betrayed when I chose to stand against that kind of crap and I was stabbed in the back. Add in the fact that the "rules" are not being applied equally as the culture splits, and it just feels random and unfair.
To conclude my soapbox, I could be doing approx. 50 trillion things on the internet right now, so stop trying to waste my time\effort with 11 three sentence pages, snarky\"witty" comments; and God save the YCNews
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some people may enter fake names, but asking for their first and last names at least sets expectations. As you've touched on, allowing people to find you on hacker news would also be a benefit.
Usernames consisting of people's first and last names feels corporate. It would be a bummer not to have any mechanical_fishes.
Thanks mate!
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
You really should re-read the top level of this post. It's directed squarely at you.
I just learned the very hard way to never ever comment on HN after drinking.
Seems like HN should ask a GMail Goggles-like "Are you drunk?" question before you are allowed to post comments!
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Usernames consisting of people's first and last names feels corporate. It would be a bummer not to have any mechanical_fishes.
What about FirstnameLastinitial? E.g., I'd be Mikem, rather than nailer.
My guess is you're not the only MikeM, which leads to yahoo-esque usernames (I'd likely be TimS223 or something), and by that point you may as well allow real nicknames.
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#89Well I post here once in a blue moon when I see something of interest, and I also comment. My long term goal is to break 100 points on my next submission. It's a sad thing that it's been years now and we still have to have guidelines that essentially say what everyone was told by their mother when they were a child. I think this will improve some day when either 1. we ban dogs from the net or 2. we start shooting the…
Just a thought, but if you got modded down badly, being banned from HN for a few days, with a big banner that tells you why "sorry: your last comment was modded -5, we'll let you back in tomorrow", that might take care of the teaching once and for all.
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#90I find that the site has definitely spread apart in it's values. And the real problem is as "undesireables" flood in, the people who are truer to the original culture get disgusted and back away. As a personal (though perhaps not universal) example, see here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458256 , a +23 comment decrying the multi-page split of the article. See here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=398185 ,…
I think it just comes down to wording. The post that ends with "FAIL" got downvoted.
That seems pretty harsh to me, but I think people are just hypervigilant against any hint of encroaching diggishness.