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Comment by isoprophlex | Hacker News Reader

Is this code review of HTML written by a 7 year old too hackernews, or just hackernews enough? Who can tell!

Don’t 7 year olds deserve to learn how to improve too? The comment doesn’t appear to be done aggressively or in bad faith, so what’s the issue? Presumably it will be the parent who’ll read the comment, and they can pass it on or not depending on what they think the kid would prefer and/or would let them grow.

Ironically, I find the most HN comments of all to be the ones who complain about something being too HN.

Which is not to say your comment wasn’t humorous, but let’s not be too quick to cast stones.

Unsolicited critique is almost always unwelcome critique, in my experience. Especially where someone else's 7 year old is concerned.

Respectfully, if you see the comment as critique, that’s on you. It could just as easily be described as “unsolicited advice” or “unsolicited tips”.

The communicator does have responsibility on how their message comes across, thought not all of it. It’s on the receiver to also make an effort to understand what was meant and not take unnecessary offence. The comment reads pretty much neutral, apart from a post scriptum which is explicitly about the author’s preference. It’s up to you to inject the writer’s feelings as either “this code sucks, here’s how you do it” or “congratulations on making something cool, here are a few suggestions”.

My experience is that life is much better if you take the latter approach. Default to empathy.

Consider listening to “This is Water” from David From Wallace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7xzavzEKY

Let's agree to disagree. I most certainly didn't take offense. I just disagreed (and continue to disagree) with the (your) comment that I responded to. I'm sure the parent of the 7 year old in question was aware of the shortcomings of the code. The fact that a (presumed) grown-up read the post/thread and their reaction was to provide a code review is odd to me and more than a little hackernews-ish which the poster you responded to poked fun at and which you seemed to take exception to.

When the Trump assassination attempt happened last week and every single post on here was still about computers that's when I realized this place is different

We need our safe space.

Isn’t that kind of on purpose though? I think you will get flagged if you just post general news articles. It looks like political posts are only accepted if they have some relation to technology.

It’s not a secret HN is not a site for general news. That’s the first item in the guidelines:

> What to Submit

> (…)

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It is because you’d hear about that anywhere and everywhere else that it doesn’t belong here. Would you complain that a forum about cooking or sharing wallpapers didn’t cover the news as well?

Though it was submitted and discussed anyway, which always happens. That can be confirmed with your own keywords.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

There do seem to be posts.

I’m not sure of the activity level of HN at the time it occurred.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...

That's why I come here instead of other places.

I wouldn't mind reading about it here in like 2 weeks to a month tbh, but clearly I don't come here to read 'worldly news'.

I’m glad that my attempts at removing USA politics from my content feeds have been so successful that this is the first time I hear about the Trump assassination attempt.

Yes.

Without n-gate around anymore there's literally no one who can

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