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Comment by pkfrank | Hacker News Reader

I'm honestly very interested by Dogecoin, the community enthusiasm and positivity seems to be it's wildcard. But I find the lexicon "so wow! to the moon!" et. al. just terribly grating. It honestly impacts my willingness to dive into the space.

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Dogecoin is deliberately silly. It's based on the doge meme, after all. Have you seen the Dogecoin client? It's in Comic Sans, and includes buttons with labels like "Pls Send" and "Much Receive."

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/DwqrqLq.png

The meme powers the community and drives its marketing. You'll become immune to it after a short time.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see HN jumping on the "repeating old memes over and over and over and over again" bandwagon. So moron, wow.

The community is really awesome. For example peoples opinions on todays price drop is that it's great because more people can buy DOGE!

What's "awesome" about that? That's the "opinion" people have about every coin they hold that is dropping in price, because it is in their best interest to encourage people to buy more so they don't get stuck holding the bag.

Look at it this way: DOGE was worth 240 satoshis before, and now only 160 satoshis. You would think that this would make people sad, but no, it makes people happy because they and fellow shibes can buy more DOGE. Yes of course that will make the price go up again, but the price isn't really the deal here for the most people.

http://imgur.com/C9M8mHa

"To the moon" isn't exclusive to Dogecoin. The phrase was used in the Bitcoin community before.

"To the moon" isn't exclusive to the bitcoin community. The phrase has been used in pump and dump schemes before.

"To the moon" isn't exclusive to pump and dump schemes, NASA have been known to use it from time to time...

The grating lexicon is what kept me from getting into Dogecoin until this year even though I first ran into it no later than a few days after the initial release. As kbouw says in a sibling comment if you actively engage in the community you'll get over it pretty quickly.

It appeals to the most common demographic on the internet (idiots). As is usually the case when morons flock to something, there's money to be made from them.

I feel bad for the people who are actually putting real money in to this stupidity.

I feel more bad for the people who type 4 angry comments on hackernews about an internet currency.

What I want are my grumpy coins

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