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Re: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

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Post by doorhammer »

doorhammer wrote: post #54
itafroma wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I believe you are wrong about dismissing that top comment in the other post as snarky, negative and useless. Point of order here: he never used the word "useless". He also didn't dismiss the post for being negative (he said "I’m not against negative top comments per se but they should at least be factual"). > 1) Thai law was brought up a number of times and you do appear to be violating it. This is probably somethi…

"Those sentences are snark: sarcastic and snide assertions that do little more than to point out how much the author doesn't know when compared to the commenter. They're not needed, or they could've been phrased much more neutrally" This. A thousand times this. There are always arguments about thick and thin skin, but I can't find any value in being so snide about something. I look at HN comments because I'm looking…

As a side note, I think I've been inadvertently contributing to this by not more actively up-voting and adding to comments that I think are useful and constructive while hoping that my own comments get some traction.

So I plan on doing that more often, now.

Re: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

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Post by gedrap »

Avalaxy wrote: post #35

Hacker News is strange... Post that describe a product that was built in a weekend manage to reach #1 all the time, but when I submit my project that I've been working on for more than a month, everyone collectively ignores is, and it receives 0 upvotes.

1) There are certain things that click with the majority of the HN audience (or at least the ones who up vote) and the weekend hacks go into this category

2) HN is unpredictable and some luck is involved. If you get a couple of up votes from people early, you are more likely to get more clicks from the /new page, which leads to more upvotes... Social proof, kind of.

Re: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

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Post by GuerraEarth »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #78
GuerraEarth wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is all rippingly hilarious. Especially the last point about the mom. Then I read the Narcissus comment. And I lost it laughing. Yet the really funny part is that I don't think he sees himself as a Narcissus at all. He's pointing out some stats--out loud.

Honestly, I would have done exactly the same thing as him if I were in the same position. I think however we as founders can easily get focused on tracking metrics that in the end amount to fairly trivial things. They help us make changes around the margins, which can payoff big or just be small gains. I think what he did was a good exercise, however the whole post, analyze, post thing though is a tad navel gazing fo…

Hey. Then if you don't really thing he was Narcissus tumbling into the reflective pool, why did you make the remark? I thought you were criticizes him. He wrote the article as an innocent analysis, like your reply to me said. A lot of good people are so insulated that they have no idea how they are viewed by others. And, to be fully analytical, I got voted 0 for my comment. : ) Which honestly, I'd rather have than a 100. It gives me challenge fodder for improvement.

Re: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

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Post by marcamillion »

philangist wrote: post #26

1. Your mom's comment was hilarious. 2. I agree with your point about the standard top comment on most Hacker News posts being contrarian. It can be very annoying, but having a strong dissenting voice also helps keep BS posts in check. I have noticed a lot more jokes as the top comments within posts though. I'm not sure if that's good or BSD. The first example that comes mind is a post titled 'You have a 0.000007% ch…

+1 on the number 1.

It's funny how all moms are the same. Hilarious!!!

Re: What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day

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Post by chris_wot »

phaus wrote: post #53
chris_wot wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It didn't "simply state", it used snark to do so. The tone was awful and it wasn't necessary. If it was simply stated, then it could have read something like this: "Thailand has a number of issues, of which cost of loving is the main problem. Etc."

I agree that it wasn't written in a formal, etiquette-laden tone, but I didn't find it to be malicious or insulting. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

We can certainly agree to disagree. But as has been pointed out, the following wasn't really necessary:

> Before your pop your Macbook Air in a backpack, read my points.

> Yes, you can live in a concrete block with plastic furniture and eat noodles on the street every day.

> Once you're sick of your local noodle vendor you'll find food prices quite high as well.

> If you can stomach the local swill (think Budweiser without the quality control) knock yourself out.

> When you're sick of taking taxis and the BTS/MRT, have fun buying a car at 50% - 300% above US prices.

> If you really want to fake it here it means constantly traveling in and out of the country.

> To not do it properly means breaking the law in a country where you most likely don't speak the language. Have fun with that.

> If it's not someone you've known for a decade then, well, good luck with that.

I think it's worthwhile quoting the HN guidelines, because they are simple to follow and increase the quality if discussions here:

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." [1]

1. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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