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Re: Leave a Trace

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Post by xRyen »

knorker wrote: post #31
jasonpeacock wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That all sounds exhausting (introvert here). The last thing I want to do when out in public is be stuck talking with strangers.

As a fellow introvert, I would recommend that you see it as taking medication. Or getting exercise. You don't do it because you like it. You do it because if you don't, then you'll be worse off years later.

This is something I've definitely lived by for many years. Nearly all of my colleagues and friends don't believe me when I say I'm an introvert. I purposely put the effort in to make meaningful connections with anyone I can and it has paid off more times than I could ever count. Is it exhausting? Absolutely. But in my mind, the alternative is worse. People are great. Get to know them.

Re: Leave a Trace

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Post by jagenabler2 »

jasonpeacock wrote: post #26
randusername wrote: post #23

Similar idea: don't go through life anonymously. Go to your professor's office hours, learn the names of your neighbors, become a regular at the local sandwich shop and shoot the breeze with staff, ask the people you're waiting in line alongside if they have any good jokes. Don't be fooled that social media and conspicuous consumption are the best paths to community.

That all sounds exhausting (introvert here). The last thing I want to do when out in public is be stuck talking with strangers.

The price of community is inconvenience

Re: Leave a Trace

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Post by uukelele »

ChoosesBarbecue wrote: post #10
hk__2 wrote: post #3

> As a writer, receiving feedback on my work is welcome and rare. This blog gets thousands of readers a month, and yet the amount of direct feedback I’ve received over all the years is a small fraction of that. If you don’t have any comment box it’s hard to give you any feedback.

What is the ideal approach for one? Assuming you don't want it to be a public one (to avoid moderation headaches), and you want to avoid automated spam, and your page is a static site, what is the ideal way to incorporate something like that?

Maybe giscus

https://giscus.app/

It works for static sites, you just need to embed their script, and spam and moderation would be handled by GitHub.

Re: Leave a Trace

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Post by bohrar »

suncemoje wrote: post #15
bohrar wrote: post #11

I am one of those consumers of the internet, who believes in adding minimal noise. But I see the point being made in the post, and here I am, leaving a trace. If the page had a comment box, would have done it there.

And, how does that make you feel?

Surprisingly, it just makes me feel more invested in the topic than I would have been otherwise and frankly not worth the time. Also, not surprisingly, I am evaluating whether my comment added any value and I think it just added to the noise.

Re: Leave a Trace

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Post by moffkalast »

smugglerFlynn wrote: post #28

You were probably thinking about geeks leaving heartwarming comments under a forgotten repository while reading this. But what really makes a trace valuable? Internet growth has proven that scaling traces does not really grow value to the same extent. > Leaving something adds a little humanity to the internet. At this exact moment in time there are literal thousands of creators that chase external validation, and mil…

The "traces" I love most is people who post complicated enough issues on github repos that show the depth of their use case.

Where there's some detail that's causing them problems, and they would not hit it unless they were actually making use of the project in a productive way. It's sort of the ultimate proof of the work I did being useful for somebody and a genuine motivator to resolve that issue for them too.

Re: Leave a Trace

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Post by bluGill »

jader201 wrote: post #33
randusername wrote: post #23

Similar idea: don't go through life anonymously. Go to your professor's office hours, learn the names of your neighbors, become a regular at the local sandwich shop and shoot the breeze with staff, ask the people you're waiting in line alongside if they have any good jokes. Don't be fooled that social media and conspicuous consumption are the best paths to community.

> ask the people you're waiting in line alongside if they have any good jokes. I know no one who tries striking up a conversation with strangers, and I feel like the majority of strangers would be annoyed/uncomfortable with this.

Somehow everyone gets friends - which means at some point in life everyone did talk to a stranger.

Re: Leave a Trace

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Post by dvh »

Few weeks ago someone here (let's call him $user) commented here that articles that would most benefited from picture often don't have one, to which someone replied calling it "$user's law", I wanted to comment how spot on the $user was but ultimately didn't and instead just upvoted. I was just about to complain here how I wish I commented so that could find it again, but then I thought, wait a minute, maybe hn tracks upvotes too, and sure enough it does, I was able to find the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001607

> The more an article would benefit from photos, the less likely it’ll have them.

-- Waterluvian's Law

Re: Leave a Trace

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Post by aljgz »

jader201 wrote: post #33
randusername wrote: post #23

Similar idea: don't go through life anonymously. Go to your professor's office hours, learn the names of your neighbors, become a regular at the local sandwich shop and shoot the breeze with staff, ask the people you're waiting in line alongside if they have any good jokes. Don't be fooled that social media and conspicuous consumption are the best paths to community.

> ask the people you're waiting in line alongside if they have any good jokes. I know no one who tries striking up a conversation with strangers, and I feel like the majority of strangers would be annoyed/uncomfortable with this.

I feel the same.

Sometimes, I work against this and start conversations.

Rarely people are annoyed. Too often, they seem happy someone breaks their shell, they just don't want to be that person who takes the first step.

Every time I see a new person I still feel the same.

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