Comments for @vanelsas

Comment on Dear HN: I am not interested in your f*cking opinion by max

max — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:23:13 +0000

Yea, I agree. But I don’t care about your opinion. FU

Comment on Dear HN: I am not interested in your f*cking opinion by Peter Hickman (@PeterHickman)

Peter Hickman (@PeterHickman) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:56:45 +0000

“a lot of the HN community is super smart and has outstanding coding abilities”

We all like to think that about ourselves but let us be honest here, the comments seem to refute your statement. I’m sure that there are some awesome people on HN but do they spend all their time commenting on posts? Or is it just the people with an inflated sense of self esteem?

Comment on Dear HN: I am not interested in your f*cking opinion by Jim

Jim — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:45:36 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. I recall the early days of Reddit when it was all early adopters and the signal to noise ratio was awesome. There must be a way to recreate that but to stop just short of the bozo explosion that comes with popularity.

Comment on Dear HN: I am not interested in your f*cking opinion by gbattle, Philadelphia PA

gbattle, Philadelphia PA — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:31:16 +0000

If you want to live in public and leverage the public platform that is the open internet by exercising your right to free speech, trolls are part of that mix. The fact that we both build and destroy our heroes (love the underdog, until they become huge then we cut them down), has nothing to do with the internet and everything to do with human nature. The better discussion isn’t lamenting that most comments are flippant, thoughtless, self-serving and rude, but looking at the commenting construct/platform itself. What incentives are built into these platforms that invite so many bad actors? Too many bloggers focus on their navel-gazing content and not on facilitating a proper discussion – that means both promoting and pruning commentary. HN doesn’t have the self-policing policy of say a SlashDot of old or a Gawker property today, nor does it have the embedded incentive that a Tumblr has where, if you want to troll, you are aggregating your troll behavior on your own page, forcing the world to see your negativity en-masse.

Not trying to solve anything here, but it’s a subject near and dear to my heart.

Comment on Dear HN: I am not interested in your f*cking opinion by vanelsas

vanelsas — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:20:03 +0000

It definitely seems to be a trend in society and not just something the techies experience.

Comment on Dear HN: I am not interested in your f*cking opinion by vanelsas

vanelsas — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:18:28 +0000

In response to your observation about the opinions of others. Of course I care about opinions too! Fully agree with you there. (I just don’t like those f*cking opinions )

Comment on Dear HN: I am not interested in your f*cking opinion by Rutger Geelen (@rutgergeelen)

Rutger Geelen (@rutgergeelen) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:11:38 +0000

Alexander,

I totally agree. Would you agree that this issue is bigger than the tech world? Look at so many comments in prime time or high profile websites, newspapers, television/radio broadcasts. There are usually not enough adjectives to describe how ‘stupid’ somebody is or his idea are. Often accompanied by an absence of knowledge or real interests to gain knowledge about the subject or the person who came up with an idea. Basically the whole democracy is influenced by this. Look what happens, especially around elections, by the people who are best positioned to give a good example, our representatives in parliaments. Am I making it too big now?

Cheers,

Rutger

Comment on Dear HN: I am not interested in your f*cking opinion by Jonathan van de Veen

Jonathan van de Veen — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:09:19 +0000

I agree with your observation on the level (or lack thereof) of comments on respectable websites (oops, was that an opinion? . I also see people ranting about posts for no apparent reason.

You wrote: “We are all educated people here”. I doubt it, judging by the complete lack of quality in a lot of these comments. People start bashing an author for making an honest mistake, but they do so in a comment without proper use of capital letters and punctuation and in comments full of spelling mistakes.

I do not agree on you where you say you don’t care about the opinions of others. If someone can put up a proper argument about why they agree or disagree with what you have written down, then that contributes to the discussion. There can only be a discussion when there are opinions.

Comment on Life can be unfair sometimes by vanelsas

vanelsas — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:36:06 +0000

Thanks Meriam, really appreciate it !

Comment on Life can be unfair sometimes by meriam

meriam — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:02:57 +0000

thinking of your family today…………
wishing you all lots of strength………

love
Meriam