Your comment is exactly the reason I want to leave. If you don't believe that you can have an intelligent community without downvoting that allows humor, and the majority of the community feels that way- that is not a community I want to be a part of.
And as I said, it is more than that. I am wasting hours upon hours here not creating anything- not using my time in a practical way. That is really bad, and it is an addiction really. I will be up on HN until 1-2am when I need to wake up and take care of the kids the next day. It is the heroin of the development and IT scene and I want off of it badly. So, I'm quitting again.
You can take this as constructive criticism and try to do something about it like eliminate downvoting, limit the ability to comment until you've spent a month on the site, stop anonymous user creation and use Google and FB auth, and limit time on the site somehow to stop HN addiction.
Yes but can you make a mirror like Kent did in Real Genius?
"KENT: See! Do you have any idea how hard it is to make a film virtually 100 per cent reflective, one micron thick and apply it to a mirror this shape?"
I'd think Speed would have helped mothers more than Valium, but my mom used to say that she and her neighbors just had martinis instead, and a Valium's just a much stronger version of a martini. Ah- the 60's.
And as I said, it is more than that. I am wasting hours upon hours here not creating anything- not using my time in a practical way. That is really bad, and it is an addiction really. I will be up on HN until 1-2am when I need to wake up and take care of the kids the next day. It is the heroin of the development and IT scene and I want off of it badly. So, I'm quitting again.
You can take this as constructive criticism and try to do something about it like eliminate downvoting, limit the ability to comment until you've spent a month on the site, stop anonymous user creation and use Google and FB auth, and limit time on the site somehow to stop HN addiction.