Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
Both those comments are voted down and replies aren't agreeing.
HN has its biases and problems, but I think you're misrepresenting it.
Oh and link to the entire thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38979970
no worries, the fucking thread is full of fucking americans just not understanding that what they hate are fucking american cities which aren't built for living in them
Both those comments are voted down and replies aren’t agreeing.
They weren't when I posted them.
HN has its biases and problems, but I think you’re misrepresenting it.
No I'm not.
Oh and link to the entire thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38979970
No, I'm linking the posts with the actual content in the OP.
Federating was a mistake.
They weren’t when I posted them.
And thus by observing we changed teh outcome. inhales this is just like quantum mechanics.
yeah, I think our guests might be better off spending more time on the orange site with the race scientists, bigots, and other “biases and problems” they seem fond of minimizing, instead of posting here
it’s fucking fascinating how many times I’ve seen the “it’s downvoted, what’s the problem” thing from orange site regulars, when the fash element on that site doesn’t particularly care about downvotes if they can still control the conversation. plus there’s the degree to which the orange site’s shit moderation structure covers up these issues — anything problematic just gets deleted way after it’s had its intended effect. then you watch orange site regulars defend mass flagging trans and antifascist folks off of the site, and you realize none of this is an accident or due to incompetence; these systems are working as intended to empower bigots. flagging on HN isn’t an anti-spam measure, it’s a way to invisibly give control to the worst people on the site.
Exactly! Quoting myself from the conversation I linked above:
With [HN] in mind, I don't really want to give Dan G. any benefit of the doubt. He's had years to decide whether to open-source the forum, add features like a moderation log, switch the forum to invite-only mode, add reputation tracking, etc. It's his website, and he chooses to leave these comments up.
At this point, reporting bad posts only serves to let Dan G. and his buddies sweep the fascists under the rug.
hacker news really is the cryptocurrency of tech sites: incredibly poorly implemented (dang begs folks to log out when threads get popular), controlled by technofascists, enabled by an extremely mediocre but remarkably fanatical fanbase, and everybody’s abusing ~~amphetamines~~ nootropics. but any day now, they’ll come up with something that solves all of its problems! it’s only been 16 years!
why in fuck is tech like this
I'm reminded of this conversation from last autumn, where HN moderators deleted posts only after they were used as receipts. It is a maddening sort of gaslighting to be told that HN isn't that bad while the moderators only take action in order to make HN look good.
fucking exactly, that thread has prime examples of both dang and friends burning receipts, and of the gaslighting orange site regulars do whenever the site gets called out for covering for fascists. there’s also this interesting part where some asshole tried to signal jam the thread with nonsense — they’d reply to every critical post with an extremely long, unasked-for series of infodumps about the orange site’s moderation policies, in an attempt to overwhelm and control the conversation like they do on HN. weird how when you piss them off enough to drop the pretense, orange site posters just start doing fash shit
Woah woah woah! Going back to the original thread instead of raging out?! What's going on here?
Thanks for the link.