Comment by hungerstrike | Hacker News Reader

Comment by hungerstrike | Hacker News Reader

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> ...if you can't respect the reasonable wishes of the person who you paid to go see what are you doing there?

Why the false dichotomy? A person could easily lack all respect for an entertainer and still want to go see them... Heck, I've gone to concerts before just to make fun of the band and its fans with my friends. One could be there doing a lot of things but the blindingly obvious answer in this case is that people like to record stuff.

Jack sounds like a vampire. It my energy that he's feeding off of isn't it? Seems like Jack should respect his audiences' wishes.

Furthermore, if the concert venue can't go out of their way to provide a measly fucking digital video and picture download for people, then I say fuck 'em.

If they don't respect my wishes why should I respect theirs???

It's kinda like how HN asks you not to treat the downvote button as a disagree button and to just post your disagreement - but just about everybody ignores that rule because thinking is hard. Hmmmmm

Things that aren't in the guidelines:

HN asks you not to treat the DOWNVOTE button as a DISAGREE

Things that are in the guidelines:

Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.*

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Unfortunately downvote to disagree has been officially endorsed as inevitable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12330029#12330373

I wish there was even the tiniest bit of public accountability! Even user profile totals of upvotes, downvotes, comments, and flags would be a usable signal. Maybe one of the perks of being a YC company is seeing which accounts downvoted yours... ;)

Oh thank you! I corrected that caps now but I wasn't even talking about the guidelines. I was talking about how the vast majority of HN users don't want anyone to use the downvote button as a disagree button, which is quite evident when you search for: downvote disagree site:ycombinator.com

Also, I didn't comment about the downvotes on my comment. I said "it's kinda like X".

Anyway, you completely ignored the bulk of my comment. So, I'll continue to rest assured that my logic is sound and that nobody can really argue against it. Thanks!

> Anyway, you completely ignored the bulk of my comment. So, I'll continue to rest assured that my logic is sound and that nobody can really argue against it. Thanks!

If you want to really feel right, go to a mall and start blurting out whatever opinions you have to everyone. Everyone will just avoid you and walk on by because they agree with you so much.

Why would I want to share my opinions with the average moron? I, don't need any external validation for my logical reasoning thank you very much :)

That's something that the average person needs, so you must be one of those since you suggested it.

Do you think the world is full of smart people? Bwahahahahaha! Nope.

>Heck, I've gone to concerts before just to make fun of the band and its fans with my friends

What.

> Heck, I've gone to concerts before just to make fun of the band and its fans with my friends.

Sounds like you're the vampire here.

Also tells you not to complain about downvotes, but I guess thinking is hard.

What complaining? I said "it's kinda like how X..."

That's not a complaint, thank you very much :)

Fair enough :^)

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