In recent times, I have noticed that a comment that tends to diverge from the major trend of comments on a submitted even though article tends to get down voted to oblivion h that diverging opinion makes sense. A community is made up of different people with different mindsets and points of view, not everyone see's things the way others do, so I do not see the reason why HN cant just accept that other people can be different.
I dont know if the thought ever entered your block head that the writer of this post wanted to know the type of music other hackers listen to and not to declare a particular type of music as being "hacker music". Although you stated that the question has been posted before, you also made a presumption that everybody joined hacker news at the same time and every body keeps tabs on what is being posted and makes sure that he doesnt do a repeat of a post.
that isnt so, new people join hacker news everyday and ask questions, so it is inevitable that the same questions may be repeated, giving the fact that YC news doesnt have search natively. downmod me for all i care but i have stated my points clearly. thanks.
Hackers are people, spread around the world and all social classes. They listen to all types of music.
I would be shocked to find any kind of music that some hacker somewhere doesn't listen to.
Therefore, the question is as meaningless as asking what colour hackers' hair is. Or what they eat.
Also, the idea of HN turning into an endless repetition of the same questions that new people ask all the time because they don't know that they've been asked before proves my point quite thoroughly: it's not a good future for HN.
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