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Greenspun's tenth rule of programming is an aphorism in computer programming and especially programming language circles that states:
"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
Popehat's Law of Goats
"He who fucks goats, either as part of a performance or to troll those he deems has overly delicate sensibilities is simply, a goatfucker."
He claimed he was just pretending to be racist to trigger the social justice warriors, but even if he is telling the truth, Popehat's Law of Goats still applies.
I've always found the 90-9-1 rule fascinating. Especially when considering anonymous or semi-anonymous forums such as Hacker News or Reddit. These sites have large audiences and don't require users to log in. Therefore, they have an incredible amount of "lurkers" who do not comment, post, or vote. I think voting is an important aspect of content curation. So if a type of individual is more likely to vote, then that t…
Of course this will be marked/flagged/censored, but I will try at least to say what I think even if this is kind of hopeless nowadays... > But they're not voting so they're irrelevant. Thank you for this patronizing attitude. TBH I don't vote (and most of the times comment) anymore because I have accepted that my opinion differs too much from most opinions out there so people who run platforms do not want to read it.…
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I wish there were vastly more online resources and papers dedicated to this topic. Almost every community of value on the Internet degrades into a cesspool. HN is one of the lucky exceptions, although early users might not see it that way. How can an online community avoid this? What techniques can be used? What technology can be used? What skills are needed? How should communities be organized and staffed? I've run…
HN is heavily moderated (unsubstantial comments are flagged or removed) and it only allows people who participate to downvote. A problem with Reddit is that everyone can downvote and it’s gamified so that you want to dogpile on certain posts (it’s easy to just downvote a heavily downvoted post without reading it.) HN on the other hand hides vote count and only starts to fade heavily downvoted posts.
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For better or worse, Reddit has replaced forums, and in a big way. Now even the most niche topic has a subreddit jam packed with a wealth of information. Its like a wikipedia of people knowledge.
Lots of censorship going on however. There are sites that show the deleted comments and you can learn a lot about the agenda of reddit from those. It's interesting in its own right.