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Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country

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Post by yreg »

School-Cotton wrote: post #19
jagrsw wrote: post #12

An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.

I try to avoid doing that, but come on, you can just choose not to be irritated by something so minor. (Somewhat off-topic, but in case anyone cares: we in the US call it the Congress, not parliament.)

+1 for being a bit irritated when I read claims about laws and regulations without any specification of the geographic place they apply to. It happens more on reddit than over here.

Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country

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Post by LeanderK »

rockbruno wrote: post #26
jagrsw wrote: post #12

An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.

I always found this interesting because this phenomenon exists all over the internet (there's even a dedicated subreddit for it: /r/usdefaultism). If you don't make it extremely clear where you're from, for some reason the internet just assumes you're american.

I bet that a factor is that, while not the majority, it's the largest group

Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country

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Post by sine_break »

heartbreak wrote: post #23
sine_break wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Somewhere Between 10-14 UTC

So this post was on the front page from about 0300 to 0700 in California? Yeah, I suspect the results are a bit off.

Nope, It is the estimated time-frame between which that post was the top post on HN.

It was on the first page for ~10 hours, starting around 10 UTC.

Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country

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Post by TonyTrapp »

jagrsw wrote: post #12

An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.

In similar vein: Using two-letter abbreviations for US states that might as well be mistaken for two-letter country codes. For a long time I assumed people talking about CA were referring to Canada...

Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country

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Post by esalman »

Funnily enough, my HN account is 12 years old and back then I was located in Bangladesh with no concrete plan to come to the US. The US-centric nature of HN (or Reddit, 8yr old account) never bothered me, rather it gave more context to those post/comment tones.

Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country

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Post by Tade0 »

jagrsw wrote: post #12

An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.

Personally I'm 100% fine with this. US-based company hosting this forum - US quirks (and features).

I only take issue with extrapolating US-specific things to the rest of the world. Case in point: I don't agree with around half of the statements on HN that explain something as "human nature" when in fact it's something that usually just the Americans say or do.

Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country

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Post by w-m »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #21

Weighting countries by 1/population would be interesting and maybe more useful to see the demographic. Or to put it another way if euro becomes one country and US splits into states the stats look a lot different but the same people are using HN all the same.

Adding up the percentages from the graph, roughly 25% of clicks came from continental Europe.

Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

jagrsw wrote: post #12

An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.

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