On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:13:41PM +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:32:34 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: > > On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 18:21:01 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 16:06:15 UTC, Ali wrote: [...] > > > > number 1 on hn > > > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355348 > > > > > > OMG how am I to respond to all the comments, I cannot see the end > > > of it! > > > > It seems I'm not supposed to: > > > > "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." > > > > What a strange site. > > The site is intentionally designed in a way that discourages > discussion. They prefer to have comments several paragraphs long that > appear to someone with no knowledge of the matter to inject insights > into the conversation. In practice most of the comments are uninformed > BS and attempts to put others down but it is what it is.
Thank you for confirming that I wasn't just being an outdated freak in the loonie bin. This is exactly my evaluation of HN (and several other similar sites), and why I find these newfangled social-media thingamajigs a huge waste of my time, and not worth the bother to sign up for. T -- Век живи - век учись. А дураком помрёшь.