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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: 0.198s | source
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hitekker ◴[05 Sep 25 22:11 UTC] No.45144256[source]▶
On the note of alienation in commenting, this perspective is the strongest one I've heard yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26640203.

Read it; it's only a few paragraphs. If I could, I would distill that warning into the guidelines of any serious forum.

Not just because it fits my lived experience. But because one of the people in thread who disagreed — a prolific developer who sought friends on the internet — later killed themselves because of the internet.

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1. hn_acc1 ◴[05 Sep 25 23:21 UTC] No.45144890[source]▶
Depends on the topic - for politics, seems reasonable. When I'm following a few FB groups for a specific car model, because all the latest stuff seems to show up there, it's not quite as bad.