... and that's just for starters. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended from now on? I appreciate the good comments you make here and don't want to ban you, and at the same time, there is a problem.
Was the problem the class component? I thought it was relevant because there is a monoculture on HN and Reddit, and most of the readers likely identified with that.
Only insofar as it's part of a putdown package. Really it's the combination of pejorative language (especially when personal), outright insults ("blindly believes vague propaganda"), putdowns ("super common perspective from [etc.]"), aggressive argumentativeness (your last sentence). The whole deal.
I'd be careful about perceptions like "there is a monoculture on HN and Reddit". Trying to pin down anything concrete about that is really slippery. Such perceptions are notoriously in the eye of the beholder, meaning we tend to create them without realizing it's we who are creating them, and it leads us to do battle with our own demons. Large statistical clouds like HN (let alone Reddit) furnish tons of material to craft demons with, far more than we need. That makes the pictures extremely convincing—with enough degrees of freedom you can fit any curve to any picture.
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Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You have a good point here, and this way of making it just makes everything worse.
We've had to ask you this kind of thing many times:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22781294
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22543721
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22343386
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21740392
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19010638
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17822100
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20805021
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21667959
... and that's just for starters. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended from now on? I appreciate the good comments you make here and don't want to ban you, and at the same time, there is a problem.
Was the problem the class component? I thought it was relevant because there is a monoculture on HN and Reddit, and most of the readers likely identified with that.
Only insofar as it's part of a putdown package. Really it's the combination of pejorative language (especially when personal), outright insults ("blindly believes vague propaganda"), putdowns ("super common perspective from [etc.]"), aggressive argumentativeness (your last sentence). The whole deal.
I'd be careful about perceptions like "there is a monoculture on HN and Reddit". Trying to pin down anything concrete about that is really slippery. Such perceptions are notoriously in the eye of the beholder, meaning we tend to create them without realizing it's we who are creating them, and it leads us to do battle with our own demons. Large statistical clouds like HN (let alone Reddit) furnish tons of material to craft demons with, far more than we need. That makes the pictures extremely convincing—with enough degrees of freedom you can fit any curve to any picture.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980339
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098687
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...