Comment by kinkrtyavimoodh | Hacker News Reader

Comment by kinkrtyavimoodh | Hacker News Reader

kinkrtyavimoodh

Welcome to the Hacker News Daily FB Bashing Thread Bingo

[x] I deleted my FB account 5 years ago and couldn't be happier

[x] FB is literally cancer

[x] Zuck called his users dumbfucks

[x] I haven't been to FB in months but I miss out on being invited to Events by my friends

[x] Zuck called his users dumbfucks

[x] Zuck let his news editors be biased against the right

[x] After news editors being fired, FB's news AI picks up news based on numbers instead of what I want to see

[x] FB invades your privacy to show you relevant ads

[x] FB doesn't show me relevant ads

[x] FB is for high-school drama

[x] Zuck wants to be the President. All this is just theatre.

[x] FB makes ghosts profiles of people not on the platform. This makes me feel like punching Zuck

[x] FB makes ghosts profiles of people not on the platform. This makes me realize the futility of avoiding FB, so I joined it

[x] Remember, Zuck called his users dumbfucks

Please don't do this here.

Welcome to the argument-by-way-of-bingo-card bingo

[x] Disparages arguments without actually addressing them

[x] Adds nothing to the discussion

I think the point is that the "discussion" around the above points specifically is nearly identical every time it happens, and usually involves the same people. Almost everyone benefits when we just ignore the above points.

I would read the fuck out of a comprehensive blog post neutralizing the above posts.

There's no neutralizing "I deleted Facebook 5 years ago and never felt better!" posts. You either like FB or you don't. You want it, or you don't. The comments like that provide as little value as the check list above. I would argue they provide less because all they do is kick off an anti-FB circle jerk in the subthread, which kicks off the pro-FB responses, and so on. That's what I meant by the fact that they're the same arguments every time.

[x] Posts that add nothing to the conversation but get a lot of attention and credit

[x] Comments that Hacker News is caught in the morass that befell Reddit

This isn't a bingo it's just a checklist.

Its 1-dimensional bingo.

your comment might be unpopular, but I just wanted to say nice username. I haven't come across that word in years!

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