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Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by praptak »

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #53
_l4lu wrote: post #43

How could they have left out the patronizing irrelevant [0] links [1] to Wikipedia [2] in all the wannabe-academic [3] comments with references[4]? (and yes, references must be 0-based [5]) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation [5…

Parodies are usually funny because they're true. The citations in HN comments are some of the most valuable contributions to the site. This whole post is depressing. Far from lighthearted fun, these comments all have an undercurrent of hostility ("wannabe-academic"). The mosaic formed by these comments imply pg has harmed the world by creating HN. But that couldn't be further from the truth. Imagine where you'd be fo…

Coming unprepared to 4chan and reading its take on anything (including 4chan itself) leads to the conclusion that it harms the world and its creators should be ashamed of the fact they haven't committed suicide yet.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by sixothree »

neya wrote: post #61

Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest c…

As someone who lives outside of sv, it seems like they're not describing a site but a place. So while visits to HN can do worlds of good to my intellectual curiosity, this post is a nice reminder that I don't actually have to endure this disgusting mindset on a daily basis. Thankfully.

tldr; you people are awesomely sickening.

Oh yeah, and they forgot to add "How I quit my job and traveled the third world on just a 'few dollars a day'"

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by GhotiFish »

SwellJoe wrote: post #141
GhotiFish wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's political correctness. Nigger in particularly has had a nice and storied discussion on how arbitrary it's acceptability is. You think you're not being a dick, but your sensitivity is blinding you. I've called my friends things far worse than what nigger objectively means, but the social constructs around it are so bizarre as to make it taboo, but only taboo in my context. Just like sex is taboo. Just like drugs…

4chan, like any diverse online community, has a lot of awesome people using it. And, yet, 4chan spawned this: http://jezebel.com/what-happens-when-a-13-year-old-4chan-cam... And, this: http://www.dailydot.com/society/adria-richards-4chan-raid-se... And, this: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/internet/2012/06/dear-inte... I'm speaking of the culture of the place. Every individual user has the ability to not participa…

>And, it is so often white males targeting women (and, worse, young girls).

since when?

since they make good headlines?

Most people who get ousted are narcissistic 16 year old's. They just arn't sympathetic to a news reel, and almost always the instigating factor for 4chan going to town on someone is narcissism. Adria and Anita being two fantastic examples of such.

My sympathies to Allie though. Definitely not a smart life choice posting pictures of yourself for 4chan's amusement, shame such a choice can be made before you're old enough to make it.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by never_again »

My favourites (apart from the already listed ones)

>How Redis+Memcached+Node.js+Go+MongoDB+MariaDB+postgres+Clojure helped my start-up scale (from 10 to 20 hits per day)

>Why Tesla makes your dick bigger and how you should be proud.

>PG: Why it's okay to be openly and unapologetically racist as long as you're good at Lisp.

>"Why choose git? Here's five reasons why it's different."

>Show HN: I used a javascript framework.

>"mongodb ruined my startup"

>"I Dislike MBAs" 32458 comments.

>How I quit my job and went into consulting.

Re: What 4chan thinks of HN

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Post by [deleted] »

sixothree wrote: post #155
neya wrote: post #61

Sadly, most of the things on there are true. We can try to deny it all we want, but most of the stuff that's there is true. The power of anonymity is that you get to voice honest opinions without tying it up with your identity and/or feeling responsible for it. Of course, this can be argued otherwise too, by citing some (bad) comments as example from that thread, but for the most part, what you see there are honest c…

As someone who lives outside of sv, it seems like they're not describing a site but a place. So while visits to HN can do worlds of good to my intellectual curiosity, this post is a nice reminder that I don't actually have to endure this disgusting mindset on a daily basis. Thankfully. tldr; you people are awesomely sickening. Oh yeah, and they forgot to add "How I quit my job and traveled the third world on just a '…

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