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Re: Hacker News Parody Thread

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Post by pekk »

jjcm wrote: post #35

I think a parody of something is one of the best ways to draw insight, and in my opinion I'm kinda happy that this is what the parody of HN is: links to wikipedia/cited sources, debates about whether or not an article was correct, nitpicks and views from different positions/experiences, and the off hand XKCD comic. Probably much more civil than a parody of a slashdot/reddit/4chan post would be.

Let's not be too self-congratulatory. Hacker News today is in many ways like reddit of a few years ago, and Slashdot of many years ago. And this is a somewhat bowdlerized parody anyway.

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Post by chimeracoder »

brk wrote: post #53
chimeracoder wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Alas I don't know for certain, but my guess is that if you have a high average karma then your posts are automatically weighted higher, so you can inject your opinion into almost any topic at any time. This affords me the luxury of being a contradictory whine even if I come late to the party! One thing I dislike about the 'average karma' is that it discourages engaging in an extended discussion. For example, if you…

Absolutely, if you care about those numbers. I think my average karma is pretty low, but that's not why I'm here.

Well, no, right now average score is meaningless. But if having a higher average score means that you have a stronger voice, as OP suggested, then people will start to care about those numbers.

I assume the goal is to encourage high-quality discussions (including extended discussions/back-and-forth), in which case average comment score will work against that.

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Post by yaddayadda »

friendly_chap wrote: post #29
leeoniya wrote: post #5

"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…

I generally agree, however, your comment would be more valuable if you would include verifiable information instead of anecdotes and personal opinion, and you would actually analyse the problem instead of throwing around vague criticism. My take on the subject is: This effect can be mostly attributed to the fact that a top comment means more exposure, and given that the upvotes outweight the downvotes on the response…

Obligatory xkcd comic related to peer pressure - http://xkcd.com/1170/

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Post by mbesto »

Xcelerate wrote: post #8

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, a…

It's these types of headlines and comments that make HN get worse and worse, year after year.

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Post by WA »

Cushman wrote: post #43

The parody is funny. The comments here are hilarious . I fear I will never again be able to tell if an HN commenter is just jerking my chain, no matter how sincere they seem.

Care to elaborate?

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Post by kmfrk »

johnernaut wrote: post #48
chimeracoder wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Alas I don't know for certain, but my guess is that if you have a high average karma then your posts are automatically weighted higher, so you can inject your opinion into almost any topic at any time. This affords me the luxury of being a contradictory whine even if I come late to the party! One thing I dislike about the 'average karma' is that it discourages engaging in an extended discussion. For example, if you…

It matters in high performance Python.

Just sort the comments randomly, as long as their karma is >=0, and place the negative-karma comments at the bottom.

Done. :P

This algorithmic craze is too clever for its own good. It is particularly evident in the false-positive bans.

(And I swear, it's scary how HN joke comments are indistinguishable from the real ones.)

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