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exactly! two types of people on HN: those who have five or ten minutes to spare (on the bog) and those who comment "professionally" to bolster some sense of compulsion


those who comment "professionally" to bolster some sense of compulsion

I wonder what would happen to the quality of discourse on HN if there wasn't a scorecard at the top of each screen.

The "gamification" of everything is so 2010.


True, I wonder how much internet points improve quality of conversation. Given some people keep arguing even when they're being downvoted into oblivion, there must be something deeper, like a need for engagement.


It is a well known fact that everyone who gets down voted is always wrong


And the person getting downvoted is never an expert talking to amateurs, and the downvoters are always correct that there is zero nuance to the subject.




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