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Real hackers do it in ascii.

                      /\
                     /  \
                    /    \
                   / DH6. \
                  / Refute \ 
                 /   the    \
                /  Central   \
               /    Point     \
              /----------------\
             / DH5. Refutation  \
            /--------------------\
           / DH4. Counterargument \
          /------------------------\ 
         /    DH3. Contradiction    \
        /----------------------------\
       /    DH2. Responding to Tone   \
      /--------------------------------\
     /         DH1. Ad Hominem          \
    /------------------------------------\
   /          DH0. Name Calling           \
  /----------------------------------------\



Unfortunately, the average Digg poster will see this and apply the 'Food Pyramid' rules - 'Today's posts will contain at least 15 DH0s, 8 DH1s,...' and so on. DH6 will be used sparingly, since it is at the top of the pyramid.


Actually, the USDA revised the Food Pyramid so that all the food groups are vertical slices, and there are steps up the side for jogging:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPyramid

I suppose you could do the same for the Disagreement Hierarchy, but it would be harder to draw in ASCII. On the other hand, you could have a diving board sticking out of DH0 for jumping to conclusions.


Oh my god. That is just comical. They took the food pyramid and, to my utter amazement, made it WORSE than before.


Real hackers write a program that takes a description of the pyramid as input and produce two output backends (ascii, image).




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