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Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by darxius »

nirvanatikku wrote: post #2

A good laugh -- it's all in the details; and surprisingly plausible

The point of the article was to focus on the predictability of the HN user base as a whole, not that it would be a plausible outcome.

You obviously misinterpreted the author's intentions and you missed:

* The fact that it wasn't made to make you laugh

* Why do we laugh, what makes things funny?

* What is laughter, really?

(tongue in cheek, of course)

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by amalakar »

darxius wrote: post #3
nirvanatikku wrote: post #2

A good laugh -- it's all in the details; and surprisingly plausible

The point of the article was to focus on the predictability of the HN user base as a whole, not that it would be a plausible outcome. You obviously misinterpreted the author's intentions and you missed: * The fact that it wasn't made to make you laugh * Why do we laugh, what makes things funny? * What is laughter, really? (tongue in cheek, of course)

If you want to know more about laughter here is the wikipedia article[1]. Also HowStuffWorks explains how laughter works[2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter

[2]: http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/laughter.htm

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by leeoniya »

"Rats, top comments will be impossible to beat. I can probably piggy-back off a top comment, though, those comment threads aren't long yet..."

actually, this text in the reply box highlights a huge problem with threaded (and voted) discussions in general: there is little incentive to reply to any already-huge thread, even with valuable content.

i've been thinking of how to solve this issue for the past week and have some ideas, working on a prototype.

Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by Xcelerate »

I disagree with the author. This isn't exactly a parody thread. A parody is "an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work" [1]. For one thing, I would hardly call Hacker News comments "original work", and a simple creation like this hardly captures the full scope and breadth of comments on here.

Furthermore, I'm not really sure why this belongs on HN, because it's not very technical, and frankly, not very intellectually stimulating. People on here don't appreciate humor, so those who upvoted this should have known better. I've flagged the article.

Also, I've never even heard of Brad Conte.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody

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