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Comment by RivieraKid | Hacker News Reader

I don't understand why people upvote this garbage. Do they find it funny? Or interesting?

> The most dangerous thing for the frontpage is stuff that's too easy to upvote. If someone proves a new theorem, it takes some work by the reader to decide whether or not to upvote it. An amusing cartoon takes less. A rant with a rallying cry as the title takes zero, because people vote it up without even reading it.

Paul Graham, What I've Learned from Hacker News[1]

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

He just explained why facebook and instagram feeds are just an endless stream of cat videos and scantily clad girls.

Worth noting... he says this to contrast his surprise at how well the system works in the paragraph immediately prior:

> I once thought I'd have to weight votes to keep crap off the frontpage, but I haven't had to yet. I wouldn't have predicted the frontpage would hold up so well, and I'm not sure why it has. Perhaps only the more thoughtful users care enough to submit and upvote links, so the marginal cost of one random new user approaches zero. Or perhaps the frontpage protects itself, by advertising what type of submission is expected.

For me, at least, It's just nice to see a perfectly useful, quirky "thing" on the internet that isn't monetized or having some ulterior motives.

Hearkens back to that feeling of all of us being internet citizens and laughing that I'm not the only one that makes this mistake.

Maybe I'm looking into it too much, though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm normally in favour of lighthearted stuff (to a degree), but in this case I agree with you. It seems a bit too low effort to warrant the high number of upvotes...

It's a Single Serving Site[0]. Not every URL needs to be a big diatribe of text.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-serving_site

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/single-serving-site

Yes

certainly funny, too shallow to be interesting

Good domain, terrible execution.

A copy of the GH home page but every image replaced with Strong Sad... now that's got potential. Or any number of other better uses of the domain name.

Calm down. There are plenty of other, more serious links for you to click on this site. No need to be a buzzkill.

It's the abstract art of posts

Yes.

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