Only on those posted to social media including Hacker News. There is no devolving into memes for niche discussions only interested parties know about.
replyDon’t blame Github for getting spammed whenever an issue reaches the front page.
I wish HN would ban posting links to issue trackers with comment sections, like lobsters has done. Although the spam volume from HN and reddit is pretty small compared to that from youtube reaction video influencers
replyNot only. I see it across all of GitHub. Spam, +1 comments, feature begging are all particularly common.
replyFeature begging on GH has been a thing since forever, I remember plenty of it 10 years ago.
replyHell, I remember feature begging on developer mailing lists myself 20+ years ago. (To be fair I was 13 at the time)
replyTo be fair, a lot of the users spamming and feature begging on github today are 13 right now
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replyEternal September.
reply > when the platform was for professionals
I feel like it's gotten more professional. 10+ years ago people were dropping the hard R in pull request reviews, now everyone is acting like LinkedIn-speak and Stars will get them their next job
reply...What? Is this the Linus Sebastian misconception of what the hard R is?
replyYeeeah I'm pretty sure I've never seen a hard R on a PR.
replyI'm guessing they are referring to a certain synonym for idiot/moron/imbecile/cretin/dolt/etc. which fell off the euphemistic treadmill
replyThat would be the “Linus Sebastian misconception”
replyOk, but I can't possibly be the only one who has no idea who that is, let alone what misconceptions they have.
replyYeah, that's the Linus "hard R" (he thought "hard R" referred to "retard"), but it's just wrong. "Hard R" is "nigger", in opposition to soft r ("nigga"). I don't think there's even a question, that's how hard/soft has always been used. Anything else is just confusion, I think.
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