If you're 105, should you upvote both 96-105 and 105-255?
Poll: How Old Are You?
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#12> 105-255 > 2 points Why am I not surprised.
If you give people power, they'll use it to fuck with it.
- Boaty McBoat Face
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#13> 105-255 > 2 points Why am I not surprised.
"Lizardman’s Constant Is 4%"
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
edit: as of right now 105-255 is sitting at 3.6%, which is pretty close to the constant of 4%.
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#14> 105-255 > 2 points Why am I not surprised.
Probably u8 underflow from time travelers and unborn babies visiting the site.
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#15Followed by a "How Old Do You Feel?" poll?
I am 30 but still feel 25. My dad is in his 60s but also still feels like he is 25. Lol.
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#16If you're 105, should you upvote both 96-105 and 105-255?
yah. This is clearly wrong. If you are 105 or more, you should be able to vote as many times you want… you legend!
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if HN would benefit from a [serious] tag the way some subreddits use it. Though, if OP could give a longer description of why they're running such a poll (I guess to see the demographics) I would expect more people to answer seriously rather than give low effort/joke responses.
NAK. Hacker News is pretty serious compared to most social media, and I love that. Which makes some rare harmless comments or posts like this one actually good to encounter once in a while. The seriousness-to-joke ratio of this site is just perfect in my opinion.
Oh yeah I definitely agree that the jokes here are quite tolerable compared to most/all other sites.
It's just that a lot of joke answers early on in the life of a post may make other users who may otherwise seriously respond, look at the responses and go "Aah it's a joke post/it's filled with joke responses, better not waste my time". Consequently the post may not see many upvotes and die out quickly.
In comparison, a post like this has the potential to easily get a few 100 upvotes with good discussions on the (changing/constant etc) demographics. But if a lot of initial responses are jokey in nature we may lose out on that.
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#18The fact that the ranges aren't equal makes it pretty useless to parse, unless entered in a spreadsheet later, and I couldn't be bothered to do that. There's no reason to have one category for the 5 years 16-20, and the most common age group of Internet savvy working age adults to be lumped in two 10 year "26-35" and "36-45" ranges. Oh well. It's just for fun I guess.
I could understand smaller age ranges for younger folks because they’re developing at a more rapid pace.
For example 30-40 age range would group together people with relatively similar life experiences, but a 10-20 age range would not.
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#19> 105-255 > 2 points Why am I not surprised.
Everyone's converting to Greenland shark years.
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#20What’s the point of this ? And will there be a follow up poll “which month were you born on” ?