sankalpb

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   by sankalpb 6y ago

   Thanks for this, can you tell me more 'if you can filter those out'? what does that look like in practice, based on your own experience?
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   by sankalpb 6y ago

   Thanks, I'm fascinated that you bring up the 'inability...to have civil and productive conversation about things that matter, and like as not, politics does matter', what makes this the case here at HN, in your perspective? A
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   by sankalpb 6y ago

   thanks, can you say more about what you think makes a member of an online community, in this instance HN, a 'jerk' ?
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   by sankalpb 6y ago

   thanks, will you tell me more about the 'astroturfing' at HN?
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   by sankalpb 6y ago

   thanks, can you say more about this? which aspects of the HN demographic do you see as being important to consider here?
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   by sankalpb 6y ago

   hey, thanks! would you be willing to say more about your experience of the 'reply thread spiraling out of control'?
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   by sankalpb 6y ago

   Thanks, I'm intrigued that you mention going to another online community to learn what people think of this online community - can you say more about this? are these people HN members?
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   by sankalpb 6y ago

   Thanks for this reply, I'm interested in the 'down-voting' you are describing, do think that type of HN member behavior is related or not related to the 'defensiveness' and 'techno-utopian ideals' you feel
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   by sankalpb 6y ago

   Thanks, can you tell me more about the 'bikeshedding' at HN?
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    Would you be willing to say more about this bit?: "But I was always an outsider looking in who never really got to benefit from that strong sense of community (in fact, it arguably did me a lot of harm)." I'm interested in th
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    Thank you for clarifying this, and I'm sorry that I misunderstood what you were saying. I appreciate the distinction you have made between platforms, forums, subgroups, and communities. I am also interested in the social dynamics you r
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    Thanks for raising this point - what makes you say that 'technical' and 'social' are separable as it relates to the problem of 'group-think' and 'sorting content by vote count'?
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    Thanks, I appreciate the different examples you gave! Can you tell me more about what makes you believe that what makes a 'community' is its size, instead of say, for example, its coherence, or its norms, or its duration of existe
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    I'm really interested in the point that you are making about 'there's no coming back' at the level of the community (i.e. ratio of 'those folks : total users) and the level of its members (i.e. deciding to leave) -
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    thanks for bringing this up. I'm interested by the way you characterize this 'vicious cycle', and wonder whether you see 'dialing back' to be as much of 'contribution' to the dynamic you're articulati
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    thanks so much for being so thorough, I'll offer my own impressions of 'success' and 'health' below the following questions to your response: can you tell me more about whether, when you say 'it would make for
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    thanks for the reply, I think the point you make about having noticed yourself 'doing some of the things that annoy' you is helpful to see be brought up, and I'm wondering if you can say more about 'confident ignorance&#
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    thanks for this response, and for making these suggestions of a new forum as a contrast to HN — are you seeing 'content' and 'content metadata' as two distinct modes with which HN members make comments? Is there perhaps
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    Thanks for your reply! I'm intrigued by this point, "HN is as unhealthy and flawed as its members, which is something to be proud of", could you say more? also, what do you mean by the part about 'healthy' at a glob
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    thank for suggesting the concept of 'agonism' here, would you say that HN enables or doesn't enable 'agonistic' relations well, such as the ability of its members to 'disagree', and how?
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    hey there, thanks for this list - do you see these attributes applying equally to both 'online' and 'offline' communities?
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    thanks, I hadn't known about this service!
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    thanks for the response, as well as for the alternative 'bar at a train station' example as a way to think about HN, rather than as a 'community' - I'm curious about the last point you make, about how an online comm
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    hey there, for you, what are some characteristics that make a topic seem 'even vaguely related to gender'?
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    Hey, thanks for bringing up the question of whether certain topics are 'downvote magnets', 'hot button issues', etc. I'm fascinated by your observation that 'following a thread over several days is a near hopel
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    thanks, would you say that 'learning a lot' is an indicator, for you, of 'health' in an online community, such as HN? in what ways does being 'about as civil' shape your sense of HN 'health'?
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    thanks, do you see this pattern ('it's just people complaining about everything rather than improving things and building a future') as indicative of HN? for you, is this a result of endogenous or exogenous forces? both?
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    Thanks for the interest, and being so thorough. I do hope to share my result here, so that this can be part of an on-going conversation. I'm not sure about how subscribing works on HN, but I'm currently considering making results
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    thanks for offering an example with which to contrast HN and for being open to disagree with the premise of questions from my original post. I'm interested in this 'healthy enough' bit that you bring up - do you think there&#
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    by sankalpb 6y ago

    thanks, what have you found constitutes an 'unpopular opinion' here on HN?