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What’s MCN?

• jiggunjer 6y ago
  HN seems guilty of frequently using obscure acronyms. Is this an SV culture thing? Is it that hard to type things out or use a text-expanding app?
  • 1_player 6y ago
    As far as I know it's an American cultural thing to use an acronym whenever possible.
    • jjgreen 6y ago
      Particularly military-sounding ones for some reason, MILACS perhaps.
  • dredmorbius 6y ago
    People deeply immersed in some technical niche or subculture tend to use acronymms and other jargon unconsciously. That said, unexplained acronyms (I also wondered and found no likely definition in a DDG search) are an exceeding poor communication practice.
  • thiagocsf 6y ago
    What’s SV? (seriously)
    • jml7c5 6y ago
      Silicon Valley.
• gorkish 6y ago
  It's an acronym which fell too deep into its niche; a check word used to advertise one's legitimacy as a person on the other side of the curtain.
• snovv_crash 6y ago
  Mainland China? I'm confused too...
• est 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_network https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2737059?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2737059?hl=en It's an established term to describe org affiliated with youtube/twitch/tiktok/instagram etc.