This is just hilarious. Thank you!
What 4chan thinks of HN
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Re: What 4chan thinks of HN
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if there is a relevant xkcd about this very issue.
This one covers it pretty well: http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
this one's better: http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
Re: What 4chan thinks of HN
#173I'm actually really surprised they seem to think that the HN community is anti-sexist. Compared to 4chan, maybe, but from my experience it isn't at all.
As someone who's played a few rounds in HN discussions on sexism, I'll put it this way: on HN, there are a decent number of legitimate feminists. There are enough to put up a fight when a fight needs to be had. When a discussion thread starts getting bad, there are enough of us that you can usually expect to see someone step in and not feel completely alone in engaging.
Even better, a decent number of those who are willing to speak out are also capable of doing it reasonably and coherently with an eye towards explaining the issues understandably. That doesn't mean the people they're talking with are convinced; people are almost never convinced like that.
And best of all, we aren't downvoted into oblivion when we take such stands. I've gotten some significant chunks of karma for being the feminist in a thread. If all of this labels us "anti-sexist", I'm cool with it.
Re: What 4chan thinks of HN
#174Whenever I have a question whose answer is more subjective than objective, I ask it on HN.
I find the community here gives the most comprehensive and unbiased answer, while still being passionate about their opinions.
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#175How 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…
> in all the wannabe-academic comments with references
References would be unnecessary if HN comments supported such complex and over-the-top formatting as links (or escapable asterisks, for that matter, but then again who ever heard about using asterisks in a programming context?), which definitely haven't been a feature of all forum softwares since time immemorial.
It does not, and posting links inline often makes for unreadable garbage, hence pseudo-references, exactly as in mailing lists.
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#176My favorite part of the thread:
Re: What 4chan thinks of HN
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Shame about the captcha. you were never on 4chan before captchas, were you?
I was. At least before that bot hit that copied a random file from someone's document folder and uploaded it along with another copy of the bot to 4chan. That was hilarious. I still have an archive of those files somewhere.
Purchase a 4chan pass to post without captchas: https://www.4chan.org/pass
You'll also be supporting the site.
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#178Sadly, 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…
At least the density of "go" posts on the front page was spot-on.
Re: What 4chan thinks of HN
#179Sadly, 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…
My favorite was >Disrupt Disruption
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Re: What 4chan thinks of HN
#180But this link isn't 4chan...