I've been getting a lot of private and public feedback suggesting I stop posting about Hacker News on TechCrunch because it's polluting the community. Do you guys think I'm hurting the site, not helping?
Would this community prefer to be under the radar?
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Re: Would this community prefer to be under the radar?
#2How do we know you're the real Techcrunch?
Well, it's too late anyway. The cat is out of the bag. Besides, if no one had talked about it, I never would have found it, so you have my blessing.
Re: Would this community prefer to be under the radar?
#3How do we know you're the real Techcrunch? Well, it's too late anyway. The cat is out of the bag. Besides, if no one had talked about it, I never would have found it, so you have my blessing.
It's the real TechCrunch.
I don't mind. Traffic had been growing pretty constantly at about 5x per year anway, so we'd have had to deal with this problem eventually.
Re: Would this community prefer to be under the radar?
#4How do we know you're the real Techcrunch? Well, it's too late anyway. The cat is out of the bag. Besides, if no one had talked about it, I never would have found it, so you have my blessing.
good question on trust
I think it behooves hacker news to stay as ujderground as possible.
You know, there was a time when Digg was a good source for programming news and discussion. Digg. Reddit too.
This site is now where I huddle to get that programmers social news fix.
It's important for those of us interested in making the social web to have our own little unadulterated social webs. This site also needs to stay lean so hackers will be drawn to it. ycombinator watches this thing to see what potential founders say. I think this should be a place for those thinking of, or filling out an application. At least, that's what I hope to find in reading it.
Re: Would this community prefer to be under the radar?
#5How do we know you're the real Techcrunch? Well, it's too late anyway. The cat is out of the bag. Besides, if no one had talked about it, I never would have found it, so you have my blessing.
It's the real TechCrunch. I don't mind. Traffic had been growing pretty constantly at about 5x per year anway, so we'd have had to deal with this problem eventually.
Funny double-take: I thought you were describing hackernews as the "real" TechCrunch.
Re: Would this community prefer to be under the radar?
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Re: Would this community prefer to be under the radar?
#7Yes, because TechCrunch has nothing to do with hacking.
But the other posters are definitely right: this is an inevitable problem and it would be nice to have a more organic solution. I've been trying to read and vote on the "new" page more.
Re: Would this community prefer to be under the radar?
#8It'll grow regardless. And, the kind of people that will actually stick around tend to be the kind of people we want to be here. The rest will wander off...back to digg, over to reddit, whatever.
Thanks for asking, though.
Now it's pg's job to figure out how to programmatically maintain the high quality of results. I still want one down-vote per week for stories...sometimes a story shows up that makes me feel ill to see it on the front page, and it would feel real good to vote them down, even if I only got to do it once per week(day|month).
Re: Would this community prefer to be under the radar?
#9Somebody is going to do it if you don't, so I'm not sure our answer to the question matters, does it?
I am firmly in the camp of "HN will eventually go to heck" -- mainly because of the mod system and the way these things tend to drive to the lowest common denominator. I know that the good-article-per-page ratio today is not as good as it was 6 months ago. But hey, pg wants to play this thing out, so crank 'er up, right?
Re: Would this community prefer to be under the radar?
#10Two things: 1) It would be great to have more reasonably good people here. 2) But I just don't want the scoring to be screwed up. If the voting keeps stuff that's only of interest to people who are into hacking and startups on the front page then other people will simply not stick around.
PG, please consider action for #2. Don't go with the "show everyone different rankings" approach of reddit though.