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For one quake survivor, self-help in the face of seeming helplessness

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13 pointsatgm4 comments

Hacker News style seems to be more verbose than this content, either post your link with an non-sensational headline or post a comment asking the community to live to a certain standard. IE: you used a caption to illustrate your point while the target of the link has nothing to do with the caption. This feels like a reddit type post, which I do not prefer IE: "if you do this, I hate you".

It's not an "if you do this, I hate you" post, it's a "I'm sick and tired of Western media focusing on only the nuclear plant when there are so many other things that they could write about, like this amazing story of a man who saved lives" post. That's a bit verbose for a headline, though.

I wouldn't know what reddit's like since I've barely ever been there.

I don't see where the verbosity of the content linked has anything to do with anything on HN. For example, in the last 10 hours, I've seen: "programming motherfucker," which was a large meme, a page with nothing but three or four bar charts and no analysis, several short blog/opinion posts... So I don't know why HN should be focused on the length of a post or how many words are used in it rather than the content.

Finally, there are plenty of sensational headlines on HN. Off the top of my head, I remember "Bag of Hurt," "Rip-Off Express," "Are Happy People Dumb," "Limitless Brain Power Possible," and I'm sure there are thousands of others that I don't actually remember. I do remember just yesterday, I was sitting here thinking that some headlines seemed really sensational just to get people to click.

I think it was even James Altucher, who is often linked here, that admitted in a blog post that he makes sensational headlines that have nothing to do with his actual content, and those are often linked here!

In order to read more like this you have to read the other 9 that are like that of the complaint--- more so now than when Ted Sturgeon coined his aphorism...[see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Law]

"... In order to read more like this you have to read the other 9 that are like that of the complaint ..."

Or choose a better source?

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