[TheMakeA]

There seems to be an awful lot of gratuitous negativity going on here.

The site was on Reddit yesterday, now it's on the front page of HN. Maybe the author can't throw a lot of resources at it, or they used the project as an excuse to learn a new stack. Who knows.

Maybe it was slow for you. Maybe it's not a mathematically sound idea. Maybe the questions aren't ideal. The CAPTCHA isn't ideal.

Who cares? There's no need to be mean about it.

[abustamam]

I don't see anyone being "mean," and I don't see anyone criticizing the author. Yes there's some negativity, but it's not negativity for the sake of being negative---they are fair points.

The idea of being 1 in 8x8 is a novel idea to me, but after reading a few comments here I found that it's not really sound.

One thing that really stands out to me that I haven't seen explicitly mentioned here is the fact that humans are not simply 8 dimensional. At a party, maybe sometimes I like to chill at the couch for a bit, then get to meet some new people, exchange some numbers, meet up with friends, etc...

And the same goes for any other question. $100k can go a long way, but I'd like to save some, spend some, donate some, etc.

Like I said, I like the idea of the project, but the idea that any open-ended question can have only 8 unique answers is not so sound.

[Veedrac]

There's a difference between gratuitous negativity and criticism of an idea. To quote the article introducing the guideline:

> By [gratuitous negativity] we mean negativity that adds nothing of substance to a comment.

I would say that what I've seen here tends to be constructive. Even the criticisms of speed are not gratuitous - they're about an important issue affecting the site.

I do see some comments that are needlessly negative, so props for the reminder, but I wouldn't call it "an awful lot".

[tajen]

> There seems to be an awful lot of gratuitous negativity going on here.

There isn't much negativity above your comment, no-one above you has criticized the speed or the CAPTCHA. Were you referring to a specific comment without using the reply-to feature? Are you saying the HN community is "mean" about it?

Most people on HN are very positive even if the project is slow, because everyone knows what it means to be on the top page of HN.

[DanBC]

Did you see this post and thread, asking HN to avoid gratuitous negativity?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916

[tajen]

I'm not sure why my comment seems negative to you, while the comment above doesn't. The person above was generalizing negatively about "the people here", and it seemed gratuitous because no-one had criticized the speed or the CAPTCHA before.

In other words, please hellban me now, because I didn't get what was negative in my first comment.

[DanBC]

I'm not sure why you think I am critcising you. Parent post is talking about gratuitous negativity, and I wanted to make sure you understood what they meant by gratuitous negativity which, in the context of HN, has a specific meaning.

I don't have any power to hellban you!

[orthoganol]

Likewise, who cares if people openly express their opinions on it, even if you think it sounds harsh?

[sumitviii]

It promised something great. But it turned out to be just a frontend project.