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I kissed comment culture goodbye

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256 points spyckie2 | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 20:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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tptacek ◴[05 Sep 25 20:54 UTC] No.45143473[source]▶
Weird! Sorry to hear that commenting (including on HN) didn't make this person any friends. It has made me a bunch of friends, including some very close in-person ones. I don't think I'm an oddball in that regard!

Of particular note: comment culture is how I managed to engage with local politics here in Chicagoland, through which I met a ton of my neighbors and got actively involved with campaigns and the local government itself. Those are all in-person relationships that were (and remain) heavily mediated by comments.

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1. novok ◴[05 Sep 25 21:21 UTC] No.45143769[source]▶
The key is to reach out in private messages to make a relationship and to be an active poster so other active players would be interested in you. HN makes that effectively impossible, so if that is most of your comment culture time then it's difficult. Most don't realize you need to do active reach outs and be reachable.