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Ed Zitron documents Prabhakar Raghavan, the actual guy who turned Google Search into complete shit (www.wheresyoured.at)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

even the Orange Site hates this fucking guy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976

edit: except dang himself, who posts a multi-paragraph comment complaining about the title then edits it to admit he didn't actually read the article. Presumably this is the style of comment desired at HN going forward.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Edit 2: since there's no consensus on this I'm just going to reify that fact via the trailing-question-mark trick and call it a day.

Since killing != killed, your comment already shows that the title is misleading.

(That has a beneficial side effect btw: not having my own opinion about a story makes it easier to not moderate according to my own opinion. I still do that, or try my best to, even when I do have an opinion—but it takes more ATP.)

danny, please log the fuck off

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"You see, if I don't ...[pause..massive bong hit]..get involved, right? If I don't get involved ...[pause..walks to table, grabs a keg, slams it in one go].. then I by default can't be subjected to the problem! [does line of coke off side of now-empty keg] And this way, I can always be perfectly neutral! [coke kicks in] This is how I manage to make HN be so central to everything!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Tell my wife I said....hello."

--dang's last words, probably

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

* "hello?"

also his name is dang? now

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

my new gimmick for the occasions I have to post on the orange site is seeing how many question marks I can add to my thread titles and comments before I get shadowbanned

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

what if ... whitespace .. and predicate logic...? we could call it ? 🥹👉👈

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

trailing-question-marks: the consensus bypassing trick anarchists don't want you to know?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The amount of tone-policing in the comments is sickening though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

So your average HN thread, then.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139636

will no one think of the poor baby exec who makes 8 figures? how could they be so mean to him??

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I’d rather people dogpile executives instead of entertainers and athletes like they do today

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

stole your comment, so there

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nice. I got some restriction for being too sarcastic about Elon and his sycophants, did dang get you yet? It blocks me from posting for a while if I do several at once. I just quit using the site shortly after that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

they don't actually want people commenting, apparently, so there's a throttle

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

For everyone? That's idiotic. It's killed all my desire to engage, because I'll want to respond to someone, hit the wall, and just leave for several days. Eventually the several days seems to have become forever. I thought that was the point after dang specifically told me to "be respectful." If it's for everyone that's completely idiotic.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The site is not about having good conversations, but getting youths to risk doing a startup in order to fill Paul's pockets.