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by recuter
1329 days ago
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Most of the web is angsty teenagers, shills, bots (rare footage of one in the wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5dauIYZTs4) - normative people, especially charismatic ones have better things to do with their time than post online. Since outrage drives clicks websites are incentivized to turn into the jerry springer show. HN is not ad supported and the focus is mostly on technical subjects, too boring for the riff raf with underdeveloped emotional control. Relative to this sad state of affairs we shine, I suppose. You could do a lot better just maybe not on the internet. If you want to see how this community is not immune to turning into a zoo look at any thread where anything remotely political crops up. Compare and contrast with old timey talk shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_PUUHLknDI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7tiBZdGvE Deeming the awkward nerds here as 'super charismatic' really just shows how far we have fallen as a society.
People used to be a lot more civil and eloquent. Some still are just not in any public sphere. |
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