Brad Conte is a programmer who writes on cryptography and hosts the well-known Hacker News parody thread.
HN commenters mostly link his 2013 Hacker News parody thread, which drew nearly 600 points, whenever the site's own habits come up.
No, it needs to be brought into political discussion and a real analysis of how and why such speech has been spreading and tolerated. I believe that curtailing speech that is hateful is needed while I'm not equipped to define what's hateful speech but believe we have enough scholars who studied hate speech, paradox of tolerance, and the many other facets that pure absolute free speech can take that is detrimental to society to be able to debate in the appropriate forum what could deter those ideas from spreading through the mindless hateful folk.
I love how more and more I completely agree that this parody of Hacker News [1] approaches how discussions are done here. From my take where I believe that right-wingers and libertarians are forcing the tolerance of intolerants based purely on ideology I get replies saying that I'm both arguing for a censorship State to a TL;DR from a numbwit under a throwaway account stating that I'm calling for communism.
It's truly mesmerising how shallow people can be.
[1] http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/
Piggybacking off a piggyback comment to take the discussion back on topic:
There is further parody content in the URLs of the 'reply' links
Didn't realize until stalking through to the author's commentary on his personal blog: http://bradconte.com/hacker-news-parody-thread.html, because the relevant replies (including the author's own: ctrl+f "B-Con") were too far down this thread to ever see without foreknowledge.
Electron is the devil's GUI toolbox
Only works in mice
there was a whole.HN parody thread -
http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661
It's important to be self-aware enough that every group has its own groupthink, HN is no exception, and to know the thought bubble you occupy when you're in that group.
Someone else[1] just posted this parody of HN discussions: http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/
Besides being funny, it's that "long detailed, objective explanation" comment (second top-level) that makes me read the comments.first.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9251369
Nice - thanks for sharing!
There's surprising amount of hidden jokes in there too - feel free to read the OP's blog post [1] for many of the details (assuming you like spoilers)!
[1] http://bradconte.com/hacker-news-parody-thread.html
> "A person I consider trustworthy is convinced crypto will face a systemic risk"
makes a great addition to the "Hacker News Parody Thread" submission trending today ( http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ ).