Please don't post personal attacks like this on people, no matter who it is or how dislikable you find them. HN is for curious conversation, not this kind of venting. Please make an effort to observe the guidelines if you want to participate here. HN is only a place where people want to participate because others make the effort to keep the standards up. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't fulminate on HN. We're here for curious conversation, not rage. This question has been debated here for the past couple of years now, and that debate will no doubt continue. This kind of indignant rhetorical question adds little of value to what is an important topic. Please make an effort to observe the guidelines if you want to participate here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Many of your comments seem to be charged meta-commentary about posts and threads. If you want to participate on HN, please do so as it's intended: by discussing the topics in a curious, conversational way. If other users are engaging in ideological battle, they are breaking the guidelines and you are welcome to flag their comments and email us (hn@ycombinator.com) to report them. If a post is bad for HN, you can flag it and email us explaining why. We can and do routinely take action against abuse or manipulation on HN when we know about it. But this kind of "something needs to be done" proclamation, without any engagement with the moderators or actionable suggestions, amounts to nothing more than empty venting, which can only drag this place further downwards.
Please make an effort to observe the guidelines if you want to participate here.
Looks great
Two things:
- I second the whole vertical space thing of MrCoffee
- I feel like clicking on the title should either take you to the post (I know there is a link but it feels un-intuitive).
This is perfect for me. I want to stay updated on the same kind of information that is shared here, but i don't care about cred points and find the social networking aspect of hn to be a codified toxic echo chamber.
Thus i love the contrarian take.
I also love that you can switch the default analysis from the story to the comments.
I think this is a good use of ai. Using ai a a creative crutch is dehumanizing like all division of labor as Adam Smith described in his magnum opus was a major problem with capitalism. As we see.
However, as it is wise enough to browse the covers of magazines, but skip the detail inside, so too it's it sufficient and better for the mind, body, and soul to merely browse what happened than the radioactive details from the brainwashed miscreants inside.
Look at the green blue and red bars on the what happened summaries. Almost everyone here agrees with each other (mostly green) even on the most controversial issues, which what happened let's you sort by.
I can't wait for what happened IN THE WORLD!!!
that green bar is not a coincidence in a codified echo chamber.
Almost no one is allowed to disagree with the consensus here and then only in a particular way. Some dissent is outright banned.
Like for example, try suggesting any of the following ideas: Trump is misunderstood, feminism is bad for women, mrna shots aren't vaccines, vc increases pain, suffering and failure, etc.
No discussion like that, among countless other ideas will get your account immediately shadow banned.
So it appears that there's consensus about what "truth" is, as proven now by what happened's green and red bars, but in reality contrarians are forced to lurk.
And what I just said only touches the surface of the many significant issues with this community.
Go deeper and you find some sinister tactics being used to control the narrative.
Good luck seeing this post. I know it was a waste of time to write it.
If you look at the site in question closer, it states that the "green, blue, and red bars" mean "constructive, technical, and flame war".
If I had to guess, you likely have some heavy premises that blind you from engaging with the content of a post. I'm not going to pretend there isn't some truth in your premises, however I would imagine there would be "many significant issues with [any] community" if we all operated this carelessly.
Please stop. HN is not a place for political/ideological battle, including about this topic. What HN is for is curious conversation, including about difficult topics, but the guidelines apply, particularly these ones:
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer...
Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
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