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Comment by 1010011010 | Hacker News Reader

http://i.imgur.com/1DhKP.jpg

Earlier today someone questioned a submission and its relevance to HN, saying submissions are becomming more and more like reddit, and "what's next, imgur links?".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539824

In my reply I explained why he was wrong about that submission. And now, coincidentally, this is the first time I've seen an ingur link on HN. If only he hadn't deleted his comments, I'd know who he was and go apologise to him for downplaying his prediction.

"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" [1]

Having said that, I do agree with you. imgur memes appearing on HN are worrisome.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Actually you'll notice that I haven't ever said HN is turning into Reddit, and when somebody else said that on a thread earlier today I was the one replying against that opinion.

I was merely expressing that this one single comment which links to a terrible image doesn't belong on HN.

(And not that it matters but I've been on HN longer than my account has.)

Spotted in the comments on the Osama bin Laden story last week: http://i.imgur.com/Fo1qu.png

(The image is a screengrab of the comments. Apologies if my use of Imgur offends you.)

You're welcome. Also: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+%...

One of the ten links on the first page is to a zero-content image intended for humor, and it's from six days ago. The other nine are content: screenshots to prove things, pictures of work environment, etc.

I've posted imgur links to share screenshots of an extension I wrote for Chrome.

Yours is the first meme image I've seen on HN.

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