I wish I was 10 again.
Clearly you forgot puberty, high school, and being unable to sign a contract or get credit. Having said that, to be 18 again...
I'm not american only puberty applies.
So once again, I wish I was 10 again.
Poll: What is your age?
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Re: Poll: What is your age?
#212The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change. However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.
Under 10 year old users should have to have their parents "e-sign" a permission form before they are allowed to browse.
Before they are allowed to comment, please. My 10-year-old self liked programming and perhaps would have found this site.
Re: Poll: What is your age?
#213It would be interesting to know which age group(s) HN readers consist mostly of. Voluntary response poll results will not provide reliable data on this question. You should have seen this FAQ with the previous polls. (See also pg's comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5537023 which I imagine will continue to be the top comment in this thread.) As I commented previously when we had a poll on the ages of HNers…
So you are saying that almost all studies in social sciences (e.g. psychology) are invalid because almost all of them require participants to voluntarily sign up for the studies.. Also most psychology studies are done with college students, hardly a very representative sample of the population...
Re: Poll: What is your age?
#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
My thoughts exactly. That's a lot of <10 year olds...
I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts.
Hmm, maybe we need another poll to decide? :-)
Re: Poll: What is your age?
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clearly you forgot puberty, high school, and being unable to sign a contract or get credit. Having said that, to be 18 again...
I'm not american only puberty applies. So once again, I wish I was 10 again.
You can sign contracts, not go to school, and get credit when you're 10 where you live?! Where are you?
Re: Poll: What is your age?
#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds fine in theory but in reality anyone with a hacker mentality should see that the poll is obviously based on the honor system and is simply a series of options to upvote without actually attempting to ruin the results.
I present, No True Hacker ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman ). Some hackers are interested in the results of the poll. Some resent any effort by anyone to collect their personal information. Some just wanted to click all the buttons, to see if they could. None of these are more or less valid than any other viewpoint, and it's silly to argue about what this portends for the HN community.
Whether you're interested in the poll or not is no reason to vandalize it.
Being unwilling to share personal information is no reason to vandalize it.
Wanting to "click all the buttons" is only a valid excuse if you are under the age of 8.
What's silly is defending the dickheads who purposely ruin the poll.
Re: Poll: What is your age?
#217We need supplemental poll. Questions:
1. Did you click your correct age?
2. You click your incorrect age?
3. Did you click more than one age?
Re: Poll: What is your age?
#218i was about to click 31-35 then realized im not in that cluster. thaaaaaaanks.
Re: Poll: What is your age?
#219I doubt so many are under 10 or over 90.
Re: Poll: What is your age?
#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
I present, No True Hacker ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman ). Some hackers are interested in the results of the poll. Some resent any effort by anyone to collect their personal information. Some just wanted to click all the buttons, to see if they could. None of these are more or less valid than any other viewpoint, and it's silly to argue about what this portends for the HN community.
Whether you're interested in the poll or not is no reason to vandalize it. Being unwilling to share personal information is no reason to vandalize it. Wanting to "click all the buttons" is only a valid excuse if you are under the age of 8. What's silly is defending the dickheads who purposely ruin the poll.
It seems that vandalizing the poll goes against the wishes of the site owner, and might be a felony under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.