I was banned a while ago. Way back...I just kept posting and eventually I was unbanned.
To address your post...uhh..well I dunno where to start. If I despised it I wouldn't bother posting here. I was making a light hearted comment about what this place literally is. It's a news website for people who are interested in or are currently applying for funding from YC. That's why hacker news exists. The fact that it attracts people who are uninterested in or unable to apply for funding from YC is ancillary.
Plus, it's nice to remind people here there's a world outside silicon valley. You guys seem lonely and completely disconnected from the world in your silver palaces sometimes.
Sorry, for this low quality, possibly inflammatory comment. I'll keep it at this and not drift any more.
You believe you’re on a “pretentious news aggregator devoted to people trying to suckle on VC money to launch their next 'great idea'.” That isn’t lighthearted, it is a spiteful declaration that you look down on HN and everyone involved with it. Your third paragraph in the comment I’m responding to is similarly dripping with hatred against anyone who takes HN seriously. Everything you’re saying amounts to a confession that your goal is to push against the spirit of the rules on HN as hard as you can without getting banned.
Anyone who wants to submerge themselves in low IQ “lighthearted” pop culture references has the entire rest of the internet for that. As you know and everybody else knows, if we wanted to see content such as what was submitted here, we’d go to the appropriate subreddit such as /r/PopCultureGarbageCodedIn5Minutes. No one needs your help to find reddit, especially not people who are “lonely and completely disconnected from the world” to borrow the insult you used against everyone on this site.
I don’t know why everyone here is pretending to be unaware that this particular pop culture reference is extremely controversial and inflammatory. This specific meme was a powerful cultural breaking point, evenly dividing people between the 50% who love it and the other 50% who want nothing to do with the people who love it. Many of the latter are lurking in the comment section here but are worried about the consequences of speaking their mind where the former seized control early and planted their flag.
This submission should be treated like a honeypot. Everyone who upvoted OP’s submission or posted a positive comment here is actively participating in a subversive attempt to turn HN into something more like reddit. As a consequence of this, they should be permanently shadowbanned from commenting as well as voting. It’s the only way to ensure that people using HN correctly won’t have their activity drowned out by those who don’t.
You seem to have a misunderstanding on the use of Hacker News (henceforth "orange site"). While orange site (or its users) may be characterized as pretentious, it's by no means not a place for low IQ discussion. This can be demonstrated by the use of the upvote system. The goal of orange site is to increase your score and you do so by gaining upvotes. Every user's vote is worth the same so to increase upvotes an optimal strategy is to write a comment (or submission) that most who see it will agree with or like. High IQ content will be definition only appeal to a minority so isn't part of an optimal strategy (unless you can make it look significantly impressive).
Well I choose to believe FriendlyNormie really thinks I'm on a massive campaign to subvert and corrupt hn. It gives my comments far more purpose than just trying to gain a sense of validation when somebody clicks that up arrow and approves of something I say. Makes me feel like a spy rather than just a lonely internet dweller.
