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This reads like a mediocre college admissions essay full of breathless, overdramatic characterizations of minor, anodyne exchanges. I had to stop reading when a two word response from a user gave the author "a small rush of triumph." The tone and word choice is just nauseating. Examples abound: > "Commenters . . . . bickered about the word 'soul.'" > "Conversation spiralled, with users making arguments about Cartesian metaphysics and quoting Socrates."

The interesting aspects of this article could fill a tweet. "1/3 of HN users come from europe. It has mods. They have tatts. Check out @shit_hn_says"

>>thwyth+(OP)
One has tatts.

>>dang+w11
You know you want "Please don't do this here" on your arm. Maybe in, like, kanji characters or something.

>>tptace+z51
Probably not the best phrase to get done in Japanese. There's no kanji; you'd write all of it in hiragana.

ここでしないでください。 [koko de shinaide kudasai]

Or maybe if you wanted to emphasize the "this": ここでこれをしないでください。 [koko de kore o shinaide kudasai]

>>amyjes+Z62
Seriously, what's the number we'd have to hit in a charity Kickstarter to make Dan do this?

>>tptace+z51
"Please stop." (Or maybe that was more pg's style.)

>>thwyth+(OP)
I'm at a loss at what word choices you object to; people bickered over the world "soul" in that thread, and talked about Cartesian metaphysics and quoted Socrates. Perhaps your real objection is someone else taking their work seriously.

>>tptace+l82
Please don't do this here.

> Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>>tptace+l82
It's been a while since someone's made good use of the HN poll feature.