The Greatest Story Reddit Ever Told
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It was a really great surprise that it just kept getting more and more positive. I wish more exposé style pieces covered positive stories like this instead of just stories on scandal, crime and corruption.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/chc3k/iama_fella_getti...
Resolution:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Youngluck/comments/cipv9/sentencing_...
He was basically driven off of the website, and almost never posts anymore.
It's kindof a bummer, actually. That guy posted really good comments.
Furthermore, he's even gotten people shadow banned on the site for minor disagreements. He is way too aggressive and then says it's not his problem.
From what I can tell, that was an understatement. I don't think there was any one big incident, but he often came off as pretentious and very confrontational and rude, and I guess enough people heard about that behavior that his comments stopped being well received, no matter how good they were.
A couple examples of what people didn't like:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kleinbl00/comments/e59s8/on_aggress...
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/j8sk9/am_i_being...
This is about as accurate as it gets. He was intelligent, there's no doubt about that, but the problem was he believed himself to be more intelligent than he actually was. He literally was a know-it-all with an answer, solution and fix for everything.
The problem with intelligent people who are extremely arrogant is that they are among the most stubborn people there are. When something is inherently subjective, they don't see it like that. To them it's only objective because their opinion can't possibly be wrong. They won't concede a millimeter in a debate.
I've dealt with people like him before so his shtick was nothing new to me. I thought the guy was absolutely insufferable. For many others, he was a novelty when he first hit the scene, his articulate and well thought-out comments were refreshing. But the honeymoon doesn't last long. The more he types out, the more he shows his true arrogant and pretentious self. This is what essentially happened. People finally recognized and saw his ego for what it was, and they had enough.
/s
This reminds me that stories are the best way to help us develop our empathy.
The objective of this "journalistic narrative" genre seems to be to hide the information for as long as possible, only to reveal what happened at the very last moment.</rant>
If you have the time to write a snarky reply about how you don't have the time to read an article then you should reconsider some things.
If someone's got time for a long read with no direct benefit of itself, that's fine, but there's no reason to cap on those who are simply seeking some context on the item.
There's far more content online (even just on HN) than anyone can possibly hope to assess, let alone read, in a lifetime. If Sturgeon's Law at Web scale were only six-sigma compliant, it would be a huge improvement.