Comment by phwd | Hacker News Reader

Comment by phwd | Hacker News Reader

This is very unwelcoming and an attack to the individual. Not taking any sides really but the way how you worded the post.

"20 in 20" sounds like you wanted a winning headline (which I guess is the case)

Please stop scolding the user for trying something out of the norm. It just means one will have to take a bit more effort to go back the first page of http://news.ycombinator.com/newest (click the more link... some more).

You can also tell the user that comments hold more value for a person than posting links.

It is like twitter for some people at first you try to mimic the big guys as fast and as abundant as possible but after a while you "get" the system.

Give the user some time o0. These guidelines are taken as advice no? After all this is just an experiment. Stop smothering the small guys, we are people too :)

HN is not like Twitter in that, here, you're generally expected to actually know what you're doing/what's going on. The problem with this "experiment" is that it was (and still is) disruptive to the intended use of HN ("[gratifying] one's intellectual curiousity").

Also, I don't think the regulars would've jumped on 10smom the way they have if it were obviously a newbie mistake. Personally, what galls (enough to pull me out of lurk-mode) is how this could probably have gone away early on if 10smom actually tried to make amends. Instead, additional comments were posted that point to someone who was aware that what she was doing pretty much amounts to gaming HN's karma system.

Thanks so much. I needed to read this after the not stop down votes I have been getting. NO matter what I post.

Perhaps you should consider changing what you post, then? Most of the comments you've left have exactly the same style/tone, and it's a very self-serving and self-entitled one.

It might be better to listen for a while and stop posting more comments complaining about down-voting - the more of those you post the worse your average score will be (because you can be sure that a comment complaining about down-voting will never be voted up much).

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