Ok, but please follow the site guidelines when posting here. They include:
"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
If you know more than others, that's great, but in that case please share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn, and please do it without swipes or putdowns. That way you not only share knowledge, but enhance the ecosystem.
Maybe it was misread, but I'm not commenting on any individual or even any idea belonging to any individual. As I've done before, the suggestion is that "the entire situation of having to deal with so many options for readability when we could easily have devices that allow us to customize this for ourselves in a simple way" is stupid.
It isn't just about commenting on individuals (though personal attacks are even worse of course). It's about editing out swipes and putdowns. They just degrade discussion without adding information, and they tend to evoke worse from others.
For example your GP comment would be just fine without the first sentence.
I appreciate the idea, but I disagree. It's not that you should never put down, it's that you should do it sparingly.
Look, the real degradation has been in "modern" computing. Our devices have literally gotten worse in terms of empowering the users to do what they wish. And that's stupid.
People mostly say this kind of thing about points they agree with. Otherwise it's pretty easy to see that the putdown/swipe stuff is cheap and gratuitous. Maybe in other environments it works better, but on the open internet it's just low-quality noise, and a post can basically always be improved by editing it out. This is one thing the original HN guidelines really got right.
I'm not here to have "nice conversations," when there's something wrong or dumb occurring; I want to draw attention to the topic. I get that people say that they like politeness and so-called constructive conversation -- but the reality is that people respond more to more intense stimuli.
Overall, I've found that I've had a much better time on the internet (here and elsewhere) by removing such filtering a bit. Of course, this depends on where you start from. I did start from that exact same place of "be very polite all the time," and I have definitely found that -- for me -- straying away from that has improved my experience.
Well, it's complex and YMMV but our experience is that when people take swipes at each other or each other's points/side/identifications, discussion goes downhill fast.
Calling things stupid may improve your experience (or feel like it does) but I don't think it improves the threads overall, which is what we're trying to optimize for.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you know more than others, that's great, but in that case please share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn, and please do it without swipes or putdowns. That way you not only share knowledge, but enhance the ecosystem.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
For example your GP comment would be just fine without the first sentence.
Look, the real degradation has been in "modern" computing. Our devices have literally gotten worse in terms of empowering the users to do what they wish. And that's stupid.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not here to have "nice conversations," when there's something wrong or dumb occurring; I want to draw attention to the topic. I get that people say that they like politeness and so-called constructive conversation -- but the reality is that people respond more to more intense stimuli.
Overall, I've found that I've had a much better time on the internet (here and elsewhere) by removing such filtering a bit. Of course, this depends on where you start from. I did start from that exact same place of "be very polite all the time," and I have definitely found that -- for me -- straying away from that has improved my experience.
Calling things stupid may improve your experience (or feel like it does) but I don't think it improves the threads overall, which is what we're trying to optimize for.