After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020) • Hacker News Board

Re: After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)

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Post by dang » Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 8:16 PM UTC

mdp2021 wrote: post #248

dang wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the kind reply. I know that people sometimes say such things, but they're a tiny minority of HN users. I cringe inwardly when I hear them, and I'm probably oversensitive on the point.

Hi Daniel. Sorry but I do not quite understand your point. It seems like you are censoring my statement «Here it is not about how you feel: it is about whether you make sense», and you found it cringeful - it even seems like you state you are glad "my position represents a minority". I am also interested in your "sensitivity", also (not just in terms of sheer human relation) because I do not quite understand what "to…

I just meant that when enthusiastic users make what seem to me to be excessive claims about HN, I feel embarrassed (a.k.a. cringe). Also, I brace myself because I know that other users are going to get triggered by it.

Re: After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)

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Post by moistly » Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 11:18 PM UTC

mdp2021 wrote: post #249

moistly wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Here it is not about how you feel: it is about whether you make sense” claims specialness and, yes, I took the bait. Sorry.

Moistly, there was no claim of specialness in that idea, and there was no bait. You almost seem to defend a relativism in which all ideas are worth the same, if you make "making sense" akin to "specialness". If that were true, there would be no point to debate. Surely, feeling alone does not constitute any basis for rational exchange - only for communication in terms of "sharing". HN does not read like "There is a sh…

> And, when one is "special", it is not out of some free membership that confirmation comes.

No claim?

Re: After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)

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Post by moistly » Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 11:25 PM UTC

mdp2021 wrote: post #248

dang wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the kind reply. I know that people sometimes say such things, but they're a tiny minority of HN users. I cringe inwardly when I hear them, and I'm probably oversensitive on the point.

Hi Daniel. Sorry but I do not quite understand your point. It seems like you are censoring my statement «Here it is not about how you feel: it is about whether you make sense», and you found it cringeful - it even seems like you state you are glad "my position represents a minority". I am also interested in your "sensitivity", also (not just in terms of sheer human relation) because I do not quite understand what "to…

> What is the filter that causes that increase

Tireless moderation is what makes this place a bit better. It is the only thing that makes this place better. Remove the moderation and HN will immediately become a Reddit cesspool.