←back to thread

Hacker News Guidelines

(news.ycombinator.com)
446 points tonmoy | 1 comments | 24 Aug 23 16:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
Show context
nologic01 ◴[24 Aug 23 18:08 UTC] No.37252485[source]▶
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

This is one of the more serious pain points I notice (thankfully only occasionally).

Obviously getting some visibility is important for people launching new projects. Sometimes adversarial comments seem to be motivated by commercial rather than technical reasons.

replies(5): >>37254176 #>>37254907 #>>37255901 #>>37259378 #>>37262917 #
noduerme ◴[24 Aug 23 21:41 UTC] No.37254907[source]▶
>> Sometimes adversarial comments seem to be motivated by commercial rather than technical reasons.

Do you mean like, Alice shows her project and Bob gets on and becomes adversarial to get attention for his competing project? Or are you saying that Alice creates adversarial sock puppets just to increase the comment count and visibility?

replies(1): >>37263930 #
1. fknorangesite ◴[25 Aug 23 16:48 UTC] No.37263930[source]▶
Alice shows her project to Bob. Bob comes up with some mostly-unnecessary criticism of it as a way to shoehorn in a mention of his own project.