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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: 0s | source
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skydhash ◴[05 Sep 25 21:15 UTC] No.45143710[source]▶
One of the most useful advice I got (forgot the name and the link) is to never got further than two replies deep. Every time I broke that, in hindsight, it was dumb to do so.
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9rx ◴[05 Sep 25 21:41 UTC] No.45143964[source]▶
What did you find dumb about it?

The mind loves to invent time regret in hindsight: "I should have cleaned the house instead of watching TV", "I should have spent more time with my kids instead of spending so much time at my job", things like that. Is that what you mean?

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anonymars ◴[05 Sep 25 22:06 UTC] No.45144204[source]▶
You are blessed if you have never spent half-hours of precious mental energy pissing into the wind for a back-and-forth stalemate comment thread.

I'm on the train right now, I probably spent five minutes phrasing this comment (and if it feels like five it was likely ten) meanwhile I had a book I was going to try and finish and instead I squandered the ride on Internet junk food.

So to answer your question: yes, but no.

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1. 9rx ◴[05 Sep 25 22:25 UTC] No.45144375[source]▶
I've certainly spend half-hours of precious mental energy writing a comment because I was having fun writing it. Like watching TV from before, perhaps cleaning the house instead would have been a better use of the time, but It is what was enjoyable in the moment, and sometimes you can allow yourself to have some fun doing arbitrary things. I don't really see that as being dumb, but to each their own, I suppose.