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| Ask: Who is Tara Ploughman? | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2009 | 75 points by Raplh | hacker news | original thread | | ||
Google shows her quotes ALL over the web. But it does not (within my googling ability anyway) give a hint who or where she actually is. Since PG has her quotes on his website, I hoped it would be alright to ask here. | ||
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| jbyers May 11, 2017 | on: Quotes | context |
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lionhearted Feb 23, 2011 | on: Solving The Hacker News Problem | context
Still my favorite site on the whole internet, but yeah, things have definitely changed. Stories, yeah, they're a bit worse but that's not the main thing. I skip stories that don't appeal to me, and you can always go a few pages deep if you want more stories. It's the comment quality sliding down that's scary to me... it's becoming much more okay to engage in standard-internet-level discussion here, which is to say, much less civil than HN used to be. Perhaps liberally killing any comment that's primarily insulting, sarcastic, pedantic would help? For instance, I just saw a link to this two year old thread today, look how civil and friendly it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554889 The only halfway insult on there - "Dunno but she has a Twitter page. Not sure why PG would quote such a weirdo." - was voted to zero. And the 2-3 jokes/sarcasm stood still at 1, none of it voted up. Also, I'd love to see people who just consistently left substance-less comments get put on auto-kill, but I know that'd never happen for a ton of reasons. I'm thinking of one guy who just posts about how outraged he is about anything remotely politics related, and nothing else. Joined in the last six months. Actually, that probably describes a lot of users now, which might be part of the problem... |
A classic HN thread on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554889