Hacker News Reader

Comment by timonoko | Hacker News Reader

Visit any library in Helsinki at any time and you'll discover that there are more librarians than customers. And there lies the problem, those hundreds of useless people have considerable political power, so they now try to "develop" this now worthless institution to something else.

View on HN

Some numbers:

"The services of the Helsinki City Library are offered by 37 libraries, two mobile libraries, and a home library service for hospitals and care centres. The City Library has a staff of 450 people." https://www.hel.fi/kulttuurin-ja-vapaa-ajan-toimiala/en/abou...

There are approximately 6.2 million library visits and 106,500 opening hours yearly (so 58 visits per hour per library): http://dev.hel.fi/paatokset/asia/hel-2017-000648/

The typical visit lasts from 5 to 15 minutes (so 10 customers present on average per library): http://www.helmet.fi/fi-FI/Tapahtumat_ja_vinkit/Uutispalat/M...

Please tell us a bit about you, so that we can have a discussion with subsequent vote whether you are a useful person.

When a comment breaks the guidelines, please flag it quietly. There's no need to worsen our discussions by amplifying irritation.

I'm not sure the user realized how inhumane the word-choice was. After all, it was just an adjective in an otherwise wrong, but rule-compliant comment. And "useless people" is not a rare expression in online discourse.

I was aiming for "sarcastic", not "irritated".

Please just don't post like that at all. It only degrades the site further, regardless of how wrong or bad the original comment was.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com