Great! Get the News part of Hacker News without the Drama part of Hacker News. It's always better to increase friction to help you wean yourself off destructive habits like this one, where I'm spending time sending text to a stranger who will immediately discount my thoughts since I'm not them.
Long time ago I had an extension for my browser that would "pause" every social media comment I made and do analysis to see if I was acting like a dick. Maybe I should get it working again.
It all started when I found some website where you'd give it your Reddit account, and it'd do a bunch of processing and produce a report about how much you swore, if you had net favorability or not with up/down votes, sentiment analysis to see if you were coming from a place of friendship, etc. It really drove my behavior in a more positive direction.
I'm a kind, not just nice, person IRL. But the Internet turns humans into text, and I was taught as a child to engage harshly and critically with all text. That is to say, I had good English lit teachers.
>do analysis to see if I was acting like a dick...
Saying something thought provoking is a lot more important than not acting like a dick. If you see a soiled 10$ bill and a nice calming nature photo on the side walk, which one would you pick before the wind blows them away?
ByteJoseph · · focus · HN ↗
codetiger · · focus · HN ↗
KPGv2 · · focus · HN ↗
Long time ago I had an extension for my browser that would "pause" every social media comment I made and do analysis to see if I was acting like a dick. Maybe I should get it working again.
It all started when I found some website where you'd give it your Reddit account, and it'd do a bunch of processing and produce a report about how much you swore, if you had net favorability or not with up/down votes, sentiment analysis to see if you were coming from a place of friendship, etc. It really drove my behavior in a more positive direction.
I'm a kind, not just nice, person IRL. But the Internet turns humans into text, and I was taught as a child to engage harshly and critically with all text. That is to say, I had good English lit teachers.
lolakutty · · focus · HN ↗
Saying something thought provoking is a lot more important than not acting like a dick. If you see a soiled 10$ bill and a nice calming nature photo on the side walk, which one would you pick before the wind blows them away?