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Someone remind me why this belongs on the front page of Hacker News?
by hoop 13y ago
Someone remind me why this belongs on the front page of Hacker News?
- tptacek 13y agoIt doesn't. I flagged it. I am, for what it's worth, on Ron Conway's side on this issue, but threads like this one are poison for HN.
- _pius 13y agoIt doesn't. Sure it does, if enough people upvote it. I flagged it. Great. Flagging and ignoring is the right way to deal with a story you don't think belongs. Fueling a meta-debate about the so-called poisonous story probably isn't. ... threads like this one are poison for HN. Care to elaborate? I think the meta-commentary about whether something belongs on the front page is far less germane. Just watch as this comment thread devolves into a pointless back-and-forth about the guidelines.
- hoop 13y agoAccording to posting guidelines: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- jstreebin 13y agoagreed, we should discuss nothing outside of tech on HN... oh yeah, and remove the boston posts...NOT
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- dataminer 13y agoBecause some people on HN want to have a discussion on this issue, so they upvoted it. If you don't like it I guess you can flag it.