<story><title>Captchas To Keep Idiots Out Of Comment Threads</title><url>http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/captchas_to_keep_idiots_out_of_comment_threads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raganwald</author><text>Here’s my test for whether you’re qualified to post to Hacker News.&lt;p&gt;Pair the following five comments with their corresponding definitions:&lt;p&gt;1. “Raganwald is a blowhard whose pathetic attempts to score karma reveal him as an insecure dweeb who can’t get over being kicked around in grammar school. He and his mumblings should be should be flushed down the toilet bowl like the turds that they are.”&lt;p&gt;2. “What, raganwald is talking about beauty in code? Have you seen some of &lt;i&gt;his&lt;/i&gt; code? Ignore him.”&lt;p&gt;3. “Raganwald sounds a lot like a Ruby fanbody, and we all know how &lt;i&gt;those&lt;/i&gt; people think.&quot;&lt;p&gt;4. “Anyone who has spent that much time on Java clearly has no taste in software and cannot be relied upon for sound reasoning. Ignore raganwald.”&lt;p&gt;5. &quot;Of &lt;i&gt;course&lt;/i&gt; raganwald would say that there’s something wrong with Waterfall, he’s a Certified Scrum Master, he’s just pimping his own credentials.”&lt;p&gt;And the definitions:&lt;p&gt;A. Fallacy: Ad Hominem Abuse&lt;p&gt;B. Fallacy: Circumstantial Ad Hominem&lt;p&gt;C. Fallacy: Tu Quoque (“You Also”)&lt;p&gt;D: Fallacy: Guilt by Association&lt;p&gt;E: Not a Fallacy: Insults&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Example: 1-E, This is an insult, but not fallacious.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corin_</author><text>I know people smarter than the vast majority of HN users (how can this really be judged, sure, but I&apos;d place money on it, certainly far, far smarter than me) who wouldn&apos;t know those, and I know many, many people who are damn smart (just not fitting them into the &quot;smarter than most people here&quot;, but definitely smart enough to belong here if they wanted to) who also wouldn&apos;t know them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Captchas To Keep Idiots Out Of Comment Threads</title><url>http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/captchas_to_keep_idiots_out_of_comment_threads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raganwald</author><text>Here’s my test for whether you’re qualified to post to Hacker News.&lt;p&gt;Pair the following five comments with their corresponding definitions:&lt;p&gt;1. “Raganwald is a blowhard whose pathetic attempts to score karma reveal him as an insecure dweeb who can’t get over being kicked around in grammar school. He and his mumblings should be should be flushed down the toilet bowl like the turds that they are.”&lt;p&gt;2. “What, raganwald is talking about beauty in code? Have you seen some of &lt;i&gt;his&lt;/i&gt; code? Ignore him.”&lt;p&gt;3. “Raganwald sounds a lot like a Ruby fanbody, and we all know how &lt;i&gt;those&lt;/i&gt; people think.&quot;&lt;p&gt;4. “Anyone who has spent that much time on Java clearly has no taste in software and cannot be relied upon for sound reasoning. Ignore raganwald.”&lt;p&gt;5. &quot;Of &lt;i&gt;course&lt;/i&gt; raganwald would say that there’s something wrong with Waterfall, he’s a Certified Scrum Master, he’s just pimping his own credentials.”&lt;p&gt;And the definitions:&lt;p&gt;A. Fallacy: Ad Hominem Abuse&lt;p&gt;B. Fallacy: Circumstantial Ad Hominem&lt;p&gt;C. Fallacy: Tu Quoque (“You Also”)&lt;p&gt;D: Fallacy: Guilt by Association&lt;p&gt;E: Not a Fallacy: Insults&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Example: 1-E, This is an insult, but not fallacious.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>&amp;#60;3 it.  Reminds me of all the good reads on the multitudes of logical fallacies out on the net:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://duckduckgo.com/?q=list+of+logical+fallacies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://duckduckgo.com/?q=list+of+logical+fallacies&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>