Damn! That's why I can't get into Twitter again!
Salmon is disappearing.
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#12Is the downvote arrow almost ready to go? This isn't "hacker" news. It isn't even "news" if you keep up with current events or go to the grocery store.
It's a bit of a stretch as far as relevance to the hacker/entrepreneur community goes, although this suddenly makes me realize that the same is true for almost all of those astronomy and theoretical physics stories that get submitted here. But they're more traditionally geeky subjects so nobody complains. Go fig.
Re: Salmon is disappearing.
#13Is the downvote arrow almost ready to go? This isn't "hacker" news. It isn't even "news" if you keep up with current events or go to the grocery store.
It's a bit of a stretch as far as relevance to the hacker/entrepreneur community goes, although this suddenly makes me realize that the same is true for almost all of those astronomy and theoretical physics stories that get submitted here. But they're more traditionally geeky subjects so nobody complains. Go fig.
Didn't you get the handbook? Hackers are supposed to care about astronomy, physics, and math also. Not fish.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a bit of a stretch as far as relevance to the hacker/entrepreneur community goes, although this suddenly makes me realize that the same is true for almost all of those astronomy and theoretical physics stories that get submitted here. But they're more traditionally geeky subjects so nobody complains. Go fig.
Didn't you get the handbook? Hackers are supposed to care about astronomy, physics, and math also. Not fish.
I dunno; when I read this one, my thought was "so long, and thanks for being fish", which is sufficiently hackish for my tastes.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was actually looking at that myself, and wanted to comment on it (but the recent spree of downmodding folks for semantics kept me from saying anything).
Yes, I've noticed that. Seems as if people are feeling more free with the down arrow in general. I'm not sure I like it. I'm no karma whore, but I do like my karma points. Personally, I reserve a down vote for comments that are particularly stupid of 4chan-y. I too wanted to comment on the salmon is/are thing. I enjoy the vagaries of all languages, programming or otherwise.
i agree with that. i've often curbed my commenting lately, because these days i seem to get downvoted capriciously for any little thing.
i think our original community values are getting diluted.
Re: Salmon is disappearing.
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn't you get the handbook? Hackers are supposed to care about astronomy, physics, and math also. Not fish.
I dunno; when I read this one, my thought was "so long, and thanks for being fish", which is sufficiently hackish for my tastes.
haha, same here. Isn't it "thanks for all the fish?"
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn't you get the handbook? Hackers are supposed to care about astronomy, physics, and math also. Not fish.
I dunno; when I read this one, my thought was "so long, and thanks for being fish", which is sufficiently hackish for my tastes.
What I got out of it was some dink in New York is upset because Lox is $2.50 an ounce. I probably wouldn't have minded the article so much if it wasn't an op-ed piece.
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#18Is the downvote arrow almost ready to go? This isn't "hacker" news. It isn't even "news" if you keep up with current events or go to the grocery store.
I think there's a huge danger in downvoting. People dismiss things more quickly than they come to appreciate them, especially hackers. It may still be better if people just vote for what they like.
There are far too few people watching the 'new' feed now. Isn't there some way to improve the incentives on issuing the first few votes?
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#20Is the downvote arrow almost ready to go? This isn't "hacker" news. It isn't even "news" if you keep up with current events or go to the grocery store.
It's a bit of a stretch as far as relevance to the hacker/entrepreneur community goes, although this suddenly makes me realize that the same is true for almost all of those astronomy and theoretical physics stories that get submitted here. But they're more traditionally geeky subjects so nobody complains. Go fig.
Well, there's democracy and then there's mobocracy.
Democracy says that this place is peopled with hackers and if the hacker citizens upvote a story then it is, ipso facto, of interest to hackers.
Mobocracy says that demi-hackers trickle in and start upvoting stories and posting comments that attract quasi-hackers. The quasi-hackers then attract non-hackers and you eventually no longer have a narrow community. The stories that appeal to the lowest common denominator then rise to the top, due to sheer statistics.