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derrikcurran·

I come to Hacker News to avoid garbage like this.

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"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

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This reminds me of prime Slashdot commentary. My recall isn't good enough to have an intuition if this would have been negative or +5.

Understood though it was the reality of the 90's. did it changed? yes absolutely, but you were tagged as a Lunatic, to introduce Linux in corporate environment.

the comment is flagged now, what did he say?

if you want to see comments that are flagged, turn on showdead in your settings.

People are often surprised at how similar HN is to all other forms of social media.

The only thing saving it is the quantity of people who don’t know about it.

It is 100% always a waste of time and I’m literally wasting time right now when the other screen in front of me has the thing I should actually be doing.

People become surprised when they see something different from the norm. If they are surprised, it tells you that the norm is different.

And look at that, the comment in question is now dead. That’s the system working.

I look at it as slightly more constructive procrastinating than can be achieved with other social media, in that I actually learn something a lot of the time, even if the things I learn don't immediately improve my life.

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