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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN

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totallymike wrote: post #123
potatolicious wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "The Comic Book Guy is strong over there - meaning that a significant number of conversations carry that sort of condescending, unfriendly tone as the Simpson's Comic Book Guy; intending to show that the author is clearly a superior human being" Wait, are we talking about /r/programming or HN? ;) Seriously though, I see a lot of that here, it's frustrating. Lots of rude, condescending ad hominem shit. Lots of Alpha…

Like any time somebody shares anything. You're guaranteed to have a few people rip apart the color choice, or layout, or whatever. I get that HN commenters are the pinnacle of the design industry, but there are better ways to remind people of it than ripping apart something unique based on the color of the buttons on the web page.

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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN

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Post by X4 »

phyalow wrote: post #14

http://arxiv.org - I like reading the abstracts and occasionally papers if I happen on something interesting.

hahhahahaha :D you're cool man...

The Op asked for a HN alternative. (Arxiv is great, I subscribed to all rss) But I bet you can't comment on a dissertation/tehsis/publication like you do on HN/reddit. hehe :)

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN

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Post by potatolicious »

totallymike wrote: post #123
potatolicious wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "The Comic Book Guy is strong over there - meaning that a significant number of conversations carry that sort of condescending, unfriendly tone as the Simpson's Comic Book Guy; intending to show that the author is clearly a superior human being" Wait, are we talking about /r/programming or HN? ;) Seriously though, I see a lot of that here, it's frustrating. Lots of rude, condescending ad hominem shit. Lots of Alpha…

Like any time somebody shares anything. You're guaranteed to have a few people rip apart the color choice, or layout, or whatever. I get that HN commenters are the pinnacle of the design industry, but there are better ways to remind people of it than ripping apart something unique based on the color of the buttons on the web page.

It's not even the crappy, nitpicky criticism that bothers me, it's how it's so frequently presented with zero tact, and an overdose of aggression.

Reading some of the threads around here you'd think we're giving points for being rude, condescending, assuming everyone else is a complete idiot, and utter and complete verbal evisceration of other posters.

In short, there are an awful lot of people here that behave like complete assholes to everyone else, and when called out on it they'll yell loudly about how they're being oppressed for expressing valid opinions in vitriolic ways, and then follow that up with some variation of "well, the world isn't nice, wuss".

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