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Re: Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

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Post by nose »

marcus wrote: post #74
wumi wrote: post #55

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Great advice. Although everybody is automatically assuming only bad-mannered ilk will come from TC, has anyone thought 'hey maybe there will be MORE insightful discussions.' Other than that, why not just led the editors do what they do best and not worry about it?

Because we have almost no editors, we police ourselves and if the community grows too rapidly it can lose focus, if tomorrow we'll be featured on Oprah this site will lose everything I love about it. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September Or in simpler words "The unwashed masses are upon us"

New users can't vote without karma, so it shouldn't be too bad.

Re: Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

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Post by allenbrunson »

pg wrote: post #44
curi wrote: post #43

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Why do you say that? I think failing to get along peacefully with leaderboard users is a bad sign.

All users are held to the same standards, whether they're on the leaderboard or not. Eventually the other users will get tired of you filling up the comment threads with your private beefs, and you'll stop.

um, hello! we're tired of that already. hint, hint.

Re: Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

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Post by kingnothing »

ntoshev wrote: post #72
kingnothing wrote: post #56

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"He" would be Michael Arrington, the person who put it on the front page of TC. If he's an actual community member here, then he should have realized that was a stupid thing to do, for the sake of the news and comment quality on Hacker News, and not to have done it.

Do you think Arrington values the community here more than the community reading TC, his own community? Adding value for his readers should be his first priority.

What value is he adding for his users?

First off, he's referring them to a site that competes with his own, which very well may cause some users to switch over. That isn't too far of a stretch for my imagination, seeing as N.YC has much higher comment quality and community cohesion.

Second, if the TC users came here and destroyed the signal to noise ratio we currently enjoy, he would have done them a disservice by recommending a web site that was so quickly destroyed after they all discovered it. Of course, few of them would likely realize that they, themselves, were the cause of the downturn.

Clearly neither of those seem like they're going to happen, based on the referral numbers that Paul posted so far, but it was a more feasible option when I made my earlier post.

Re: Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

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Post by ntoshev »

kingnothing wrote: post #84
ntoshev wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think Arrington values the community here more than the community reading TC, his own community? Adding value for his readers should be his first priority.

What value is he adding for his users? First off, he's referring them to a site that competes with his own, which very well may cause some users to switch over. That isn't too far of a stretch for my imagination, seeing as N.YC has much higher comment quality and community cohesion. Second, if the TC users came here and destroyed the signal to noise ratio we currently enjoy, he would have done them a disservice by re…

Even if the community here is "diluted" with TC members, it is a net positive effect for techcrunchers to get smarter people to talk with.

Re: Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

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Post by kingnothing »

ntoshev wrote: post #85
kingnothing wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What value is he adding for his users? First off, he's referring them to a site that competes with his own, which very well may cause some users to switch over. That isn't too far of a stretch for my imagination, seeing as N.YC has much higher comment quality and community cohesion. Second, if the TC users came here and destroyed the signal to noise ratio we currently enjoy, he would have done them a disservice by re…

Even if the community here is "diluted" with TC members, it is a net positive effect for techcrunchers to get smarter people to talk with.

Of course, that's only up to the point that the "smarter people" stop tolerating the dilution and leave, thus leaving the TC members in the exact same position as before.
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