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Comment by Safety1stClyde | Hacker News Reader

YANPLUSUM - Yet Another New Programming Language Undergoes Some Unimportant Milestone.

Can you please just not comment when this is all you have to say? Comments on HN should be civil and substantive.

This post about yet another "new programming language" reaching a milestone consisting of random digits was upvoted so that it reached the front page of your web site, and my pointing that out resulted in my not only being downvoted but revenge-downvoted across several other posts. If you wish to improve your web site's content, a more valuable service toward that end would be to excise the spammers promoting the above nonsense content, and revenge-downvoting across answers, rather than criticising me for pointing out that this emperor is not wearing any clothes.

We do penalize minor release articles, and there are software protections against abusive downvoting. What we need from you is no more comments like these. It's not criticism, they simply break the guidelines.

The spamming of this site by these kinds of projects has gone far enough that it has now been parodied in a television series:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/6cy0x3/th...

Quote on the whiteboard by the character "Gilfoyle" in "Silicon Valley":

HACKER NEWS!!! Get friends to upvote

One would have to be extremely naive to think that anyone except friends of the authors would upvote a link to a changelog for version 0.17.0 of a "new programming language" on this site.

To paraphrase Steve Jobs: "Oh yeah? What the fuck have you done that's so awesome that you now feel like you can just make some snide, zero-value comment to shit on a new release of one of the more interesting new programming languages of the past few years, Clyde?"

This kind of news, and discussion of it, is exactly what this website is for.

This. Though I'm woefully under-skilled to offer much comment on these sorts of stories, it is exactly this sort of story and the comments of much smarter people than me that attract me to read HN. Really, I wish it were more of this sort of thing and less politics and other non-tech miscellanea.

Yeah, it's hard to contain one's excitement when one hears that version 0.17.0 of a project has just been released.

Hey dude, this is someone's project. Think about what it would be like if you posted a project here and someone else called it "yet another unimportant thing".

Whatever importance "v0.17.0" might have to the authors, it means no more to me than any other random string of digits. Regardless of the content, the title of this submission is ridiculously poor.

Yeah, let's Trumpify that title: "JUUUGE NIM release - everybody is saying they're going to give up sex now, 'cause we're like 17 times better now! NIM version 17,000.17 is OUT and PROUD!"

Accuracy and brevity, pshaaw.

Please do not post like this here.

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

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

I don't see any mention in the links that humor is to be strictly avoided. Did I miss something?

I'm amused that the party I'm replying to actually insists on a more click-baity title; but chose to use humor to express that. I certainly won't again, and may not comment here again.

Click the link, you'll see the changelog.

I'm trying to contain my excitement.

When this happens with most other posts, most people tend to not read them, not comment on them, and most definitely not shit all over them.

Enough people have been interested in it for it to be voted high enough for you to see it.

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