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by adabsurdo 5307 days ago
you know you're on hacker news when the most upvoted comment has found something negative to nitpick out of a cool story.
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Adding positive comments doesn't usually add as much information. The story itself was a positive comment. Critical discussion is best done not by saying "hey, cool story" - that's what upvoting is for. There are some cases where a non-negative comment is great, like pointing other readers to an interesting piece of related information, but if all it does is confirm what the original submission said, it's less informative.
You know you're on hacker news when the most upvoted comment is a link to a bunch of stuff about paraboloids.
You know you're on hacker news when a repetitious meme gets voted down to oblivion. Oh, wait...

Edit: Phew, -2 and dropping. I was worried there for a second.

In summary, this is Hacker News.
You know you're on Hacker News when meme threads die before they got obnoxiously long... as they should.