| > Appeal to authority with internet points > Moan that HN won't support you spilling your politics that already fill your twitter feed over into the site, despite many alternatives existing > Recognize it's a free site and it can do what it wants > Assert it's wrong, and doing wrong, by disagreeing with you, that voice of karma-provided authority > Post your Twitter rant to HN for attention > HN democratically removes your rant > Whimper on Twitter that HN, the site you're apparently done with, aren't facilitating your anti-HN rants, implicitly encouraging your following to do some bandwagoning God only knows what drama this person would be capable of if HN kowtowed and facilitated their self-approved topics for discussion. Why ask for Reddit 2.0 when you can just stick to Reddit.com? |
A thread or two on big cultural trends of the day makes sense but this isn't reddit or twitter.