Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing

#1

Post by lispython » Mon, Sep 02, 2013, 7:38 AM UTC

Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing
righto.com

Re: Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing

#2

Post by lutusp » Mon, Sep 02, 2013, 7:46 AM UTC

Unfortunately there are too many useful rhetorical devices in the list, devices that serve a purpose. Ironically, the list starts off with "correlation is not causation," an expression that in most cases is raised for very good reasons -- for example, any popular science story that includes the word "linked" but without adequate qualifiers.

If more people were science-literate, these platitudes wouldn't be necessary. But they aren't, so they are.

Re: Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing

#3

Post by benologist » Mon, Sep 02, 2013, 7:56 AM UTC

Random PG quote I've kept on my clipboard for days looking for the right day to paste it. GOD I HOPE HE SEES.

Copying != stealing, because apparently time stopped about 8 years ago. And this is digg.

IE is hard to develop for even though all the problems it had have been solved for approximately 11 thousand years before anyone alive today was even born.

First they came for [whatever we're talking about] and I said nothing ...

Re: Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing

#4

Post by moomin » Mon, Sep 02, 2013, 8:17 AM UTC

Cliches like this are OK. What really annoys me is that the top rated comment is invariably a straight-forward contradiction of the original article's thesis. Like this comment here.

Re: Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing

#5

Post by mryan » Mon, Sep 02, 2013, 8:17 AM UTC

http://xkcd.com/1053/

For each of these irritants, perhaps someone has just recently discovered them and is keen to appear knowledgable the next time the debate comes up.

If I had my way, a comment that matched something like /^This\./ would result in an immediate hellban. I don't know why this particular habit annoys me so much.

Re: Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing

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Post by chatman » Mon, Sep 02, 2013, 8:19 AM UTC

This.

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#7

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 02, 2013, 8:20 AM UTC

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Post by k__ » Mon, Sep 02, 2013, 8:23 AM UTC

moomin wrote: post #4

Cliches like this are OK. What really annoys me is that the top rated comment is invariably a straight-forward contradiction of the original article's thesis. Like this comment here.

Is there already a law for this?

I would love this to be called "Moomin's Law"

Re: Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing

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Post by ZeroGravitas » Mon, Sep 02, 2013, 8:23 AM UTC

benologist wrote: post #3

Random PG quote I've kept on my clipboard for days looking for the right day to paste it. GOD I HOPE HE SEES. Copying != stealing, because apparently time stopped about 8 years ago. And this is digg. IE is hard to develop for even though all the problems it had have been solved for approximately 11 thousand years before anyone alive today was even born. First they came for [whatever we're talking about] and I said no…

I've not read the link yet so I'm curious to see if this is meant as a parody of bad posts or is sincere.

Re: Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing

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Post by gnur » Mon, Sep 02, 2013, 8:25 AM UTC

While this is true for long time readers, there are new readers on this website every single day. Perhaps someone hasn't learned about the Dunning-Kruger effect and learns something new. Perhaps the point that he wants to make (I think) doesn't come through, he wants comments to be more then short stubs, comments that really make a point.