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Or so I thought... till I read this Good Parts post and now I am left with this vague feeling I've been wrong all along. I wish he had said why some comments are so bad.
I now don't want to end up as the top comment because its always bad?
* People fishing for upvotes by complaining about how X news site uses Javascript or has a paywall. We get it. I know. I agree. Stop posting it.
* Top comments being tangential responses to the title, not discussions of the linked content. I usually enjoy the tangential responses, but I want to see the more-relevant discussion voted higher. I can only imagine that these posts are being upvoted by people who also didn't read the article.
> On any topic I’m informed about, the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong.
I'd be curious to see some examples, because this isn't really my experience. Once in a while, yes. But not that often and not the vast majority, and it mostly pops up in political-flavored threads. But I should defer to Luu, who is a lot more informed than I am on a lot of topics.
I sometimes wonder how HN’s audience is shaped by the site’s deliberate inaccessibility to visually impaired people. I suspect it is one part of the site’s tilt toward the younger crowd
I'm wondering how effective non-text would be? Personally, text is my preferred medium for any non-simple communication.
I sometimes wonder how HN’s audience is shaped by the site’s deliberate inaccessibility to visually impaired people. I suspect it is one part of the site’s tilt toward the younger crowd
Can you expand? I naively thought that a site with markup as simple as HN's (zooming is flawless and it even works without JavaScript) would be very accessible to visually-impaired people.
I think besides dang and other moderators who keep the site somewhat cleaned up through brute force, the fact that HN discourages flashy features and headache-inducing levels of information density and imagery helps to keep a core audience present, unlike most other platforms that start out simple then quickly pile on feature after feature that make the original audience depart.
I expect this post will get few comments out of self-consciousness.
I sometimes wonder how HN’s audience is shaped by the site’s deliberate inaccessibility to visually impaired people. I suspect it is one part of the site’s tilt toward the younger crowd
What in particular would you wish to have improved?
I sometimes wonder how HN’s audience is shaped by the site’s deliberate inaccessibility to visually impaired people. I suspect it is one part of the site’s tilt toward the younger crowd
I sometimes wonder how HN’s audience is shaped by the site’s deliberate inaccessibility to visually impaired people. I suspect it is one part of the site’s tilt toward the younger crowd