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This isn't Hacker News material.

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It's a well-executed joke aimed at the Hacker community. I enjoyed it and upvoted it.

It's a hello world rest app. There is nothing interesting about it at all.

For me I appreciate it from the end result, not the underlying guts of how it works.

Calling it a joke is a real stretch. Apparently HN is populated entirely by preteen boys who think that the word "fuck" is hilarious.

Actually, this is the epitome of HN material.

It is not. Five years ago we didn't have this crap. There is nothing redeemable about this besides it being a hello world rest app.

Votes decide that, not you.

well, strictly speaking, pg decides that. In the current constitutional arrangement though, he (mostly) delegates his powers to the electorate.

Communities can hold themselves to standards and people can try to convince each other that those standards are good.

It is SUPER telling that the only people that disagree with me have accounts that are younger than mine while the ones that agree with me have accounts that are older than mine.

And look at that, it has been flagged and pulled from the homepage.

And if I was still able to flag submissions, I'd flag it.

And why can't you flag it? Is there a quota or something?

I've lost the ability to flag in the past couple of months, for no reason I can discern. I seldom used it unless I thought the story was very off-topic.

Only thing I can think of is accidentally fat-fingering flag on my phone, then a mod revoking my ability in retaliation.

If you think this submission is off-topic, and you've flagged other submissions like it, you may have lost your flagging rights.

I dislike the way that people say actions are done "in retaliation" or as "retribution" - as I understand it they're largely automated.

Do you remember the way this site was when it first started out? I've been here a long time, and it's changed. I'm less and less engaged over time.

Reddit exists for posts like this one.

I used to use 'flag' perhaps 10 times a year. And judging by how mods change post titles, they've clearly - IMHO - drifted into the harmful space.

Here's a link to the front page for July 2007.

(http://web.archive.org/web/20070713212949/http://news.ycombi...)

Which on there are particularly good, or particularly bad?

They raised the bar to something over 5000 karma or something.

I have over 13000 karma.

Neither are comments like this

I actually agree with you, and normally I don't post them, but this is just so fragrantly not what HN is about and yet it is almost #1.

My time! It's been wasted! Oh noes!

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