What Happens Next Will Amaze You

Post by tedks » Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 4:27 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #164

tedks wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the imaginary internet points incentive system HN uses implicitly incentivizes those posts. One way to stop this would be to have people who post low-value high-expected-karma-yield posts get randomly banned. This would function as a variable punishment and should be quite effective at training HN users.

"Worst. HN. Suggestion. Ever."

This is a perfect example of a comment that should have maybe a 1/100 chance of getting someone banned.

1. It contributes nothing.

2. It's a pop culture reference.

3. It comes from an HN brand that can be reliably expected to farm karma basically anywhere via name recognition alone.

Post by mbubb » Sat, Sep 26, 2015, 2:39 PM UTC

jonstokes wrote: post #119

Ok, this is a fantastic piece that says a lot of useful and thoughtful things, some of them critical about the priorities of the SF startup scene. And what are a nontrivial portion of the HN comments doing? Complaining that he was unfair to Elon freaking Musk!! This is exactly the sort of techno-douchebaggery that the author is writing about, so way to prove his point, nimrods. The one redeeming quality of such comme…

True and sometimes the value of a piece is the fact that you can get something of value and learn from it even if you vehemently disagree with points made or conclusions.

Nietsche's point in the beginning of the "use and Abuse of History": “Moreover, I hate everything that only instructs me without increasing or immediately stimulating my own activity.” These words of Goethe's, a boldly expressed ceterum censeo, provide an appropriate beginning for our observations on the worth and worthlessness of history.

The great thing about a presentation like this is that it burst one of the may filter bubbles I walk around in... Oh and also it is n't Powerpoint.

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