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by tomhoward
2895 days ago
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It would help to give some specific examples of threads or comments you think are hateful. The more active HN users, with the support of the moderators, are quite vigilant about downvoting or flagging nasty comments. Can you give any examples of nasty or mean comments that appear high up in the comment thread and/or without being faded or flagged? The whole idea of Show HN is to encourage people to build interesting things and get feedback to help them improve their project and/or skills. So, constructive criticism should be welcomed whereas meanness should be weeded out any time it appears. If you're seeing mean comments in Show HN posts, you should flag and downvote those comments and consider reporting them to the moderators at hn@ycombinator.com. |
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17548331 - both comments by the show-er.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17547703 - one non-author comment, author responded along the lines "good point" but "edge case".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546384 - one comment, possibly negative (a complaint about the use of the word 'certificated').
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17545446 - one non-author comment, seems like a valid critique
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17544832 - only one author comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17544332 - only one author comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17544330 - only one author comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541458 - only one author comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541114 - I felt the one comment was negative. I have added a more positive followup.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540687 - the one comment starts "Genius"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540393 - a meta Show HN doing sentiment analysis on Show HN. Many comments. Mixed. Seems overall positive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540210 - only one author comment
From this I conclude that 1) Most Show HNs go uncommented, even when the author tries to encourage feedback by adding a comment, and 2) it is not the case that "the HN community is always hating on new ideas."