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Comment by t3mp3st | Hacker News Reader

I tried posting it to reddit (my leisure time goes to: YC, reddit, and embarassing projects like cupidco.de :), but they went into attack mode on me. I figured that was probably because the link was more of a YC sorta thing so I pretended reddit didn't happen and posted it here.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/a2z0t/dear_reddi...

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On a related note: in my experience, I've always found people of the reddit community to be very smart, but also very negative, and very insensitive, vs. people on news.yc being smart, pragmatic, and at some times...irrational. This is based on real life interactions with coworkers as well as online.

Funny thing... I've stopped hanging around Reddit for the last few weeks, and my outlook on life has noticeably improved... I used to be a very cynical, see the worst in everything sort of guy, but once I distanced myself from others like this, I've found that everything is suddenly... better.

YMMV, but I'm not going to go back to being a reddit regularly anytime soon :)

I think I prefer the latter :P. I was a little taken aback by the instant negativity I got there. Oh well.

You tried the programming subreddit? Maybe with a self post?

Haha, getting uber hate there:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a2zr1/dear_prog...

It's not you. People on reddit are stupid/jerks.

It seemed to me that the reddit comments were equally supportive, have the trollish ones been removed?

Awesome idea BTW. Sounds like a great girl.

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