You know you've got a Hacker News problem when...

5 points by motherwell ↗ HN
Might be a fun list...

I'll go first: Someone shows you a new site and the first thing you say is "where is the business model? That'll never work!"

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When you say "where is the upvote button?" when you agree with a comment on another discussion site.
You don't post that short, witty comment because you're worried it's too "Redditish" and will effect your karma.
When you see a misspelling and really want to correct it, but restrain yourself because it will sound snobby and you'll get downvoted.

(Your use of effect is off; 'to effect' means something more like 'to cause', the verb you're looking for is 'to affect', I think.)

When you go to the movies and see a PG rating and wonder when pg went into showbiz.
When you see fun list posts and decide not to upvote them.

Oh wait, then Hacker news wouldn't have a problem. My bad.