top | item 9277145 (no title) EpicDavi | 11 years ago To be fair, hash-tags are used to categorize and group content on social media. HN does not implement this functionality. Essentially, the '#' serves no purpose on HN. Therefore, it is easy to see why people get bothered by it. discuss order hn newest 7Z7|11 years ago It was in quotes. It was clearly meant to characterise a certain type of commenter, rather than serve a categorical function. EpicDavi|11 years ago Are you serious? Look at vayarajesh's original comment.It 'clearly' states this: It makes me fall in love with Apple more. #RespectNo quotes. He/She was using it seriously. raverbashing|11 years ago Actually, it was first used without any support from twitter, then transformed into a tag-like functionalitySame with retweets.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag#Origin_and_Use
7Z7|11 years ago It was in quotes. It was clearly meant to characterise a certain type of commenter, rather than serve a categorical function. EpicDavi|11 years ago Are you serious? Look at vayarajesh's original comment.It 'clearly' states this: It makes me fall in love with Apple more. #RespectNo quotes. He/She was using it seriously.
EpicDavi|11 years ago Are you serious? Look at vayarajesh's original comment.It 'clearly' states this: It makes me fall in love with Apple more. #RespectNo quotes. He/She was using it seriously.
raverbashing|11 years ago Actually, it was first used without any support from twitter, then transformed into a tag-like functionalitySame with retweets.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag#Origin_and_Use
7Z7|11 years ago
EpicDavi|11 years ago
It 'clearly' states this: It makes me fall in love with Apple more. #Respect
No quotes. He/She was using it seriously.
raverbashing|11 years ago
Same with retweets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag#Origin_and_Use