+1.
I'm just going to start replying to the April Fool's articles as though they are serious, annoying the submitters who will have to reply to me. Someone is wrong on the Internet!
(Wow, xkcd is 3d today!)
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#62Can we also skip the submissions asking people not to post things instead of just letting the community decide the same way it's been done for years?
No, but thanks for asking.
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#63Can we also skip the submissions asking people not to post things instead of just letting the community decide the same way it's been done for years?
Can you please stop commenting on whether to use posts as meta-moderation? The community decided the post was worth the number one spot.
The irony is that the number one comment on the number one article is taking the opposite viewpoint.
I think we have a few years left before HN becomes Reddit.
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#64It's one freaking day of the year. If you insist on being a total curmudgeon, can't you just skip the internet for a day? Come back tomorrow. If you miss one real article, the world will not come to a screeching halt.
It would be bearable if more than 0.1% of the submissions weren't inane rubbish. I always like those years when April 1 falls on a weekend. And, to paraphrase Homer, what's the chances of April 1 being on a Saturday? Must be 1 in 1000.
You're complaining that the submissions are 10x better on 1 April than on every other day? :)
(/classic vs. /new is such a shock)
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#65Can we also skip the submissions asking people not to post things instead of just letting the community decide the same way it's been done for years?
Sure. Except that the community just decided that this post should be the top story on the site right now.
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#66Seriously. After PGs systems were hacked and all YC applications were deleted last night - this is no time to joke, especially on HN!!!
I'm glad you changed what you originally wrote - Seriously. After PGs bad car accident last night - this is no time to joke, especially on HN. That was just wrong and the opposite of funny.
:(
I changed it because, even thoug hthe original was a joke, I in no way want to put it out there into the universe that physical harm would have come to PG... and while that was funny - still - I dont want that thought in peoples heads.
So, I pull my april fools statement just because I simply can stomach that type of thought being had about PG in the HN community.
Besides, much better if they thought their apps were deleted! teehee!
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meta-discussions can be tiresome, but communities die if content is chosen strictly by popularity. Some moderation must be applied, and the most important things to moderate are the things that are popular but subtly undermine the site's purpose. In this particular case the poster is being very reasonable: no lame submissions. "Joel on Coal" is a good example. That might have been funny as h*ll back when Joel was blo…
> no lame submissions Why not? What's so bad about them? A submission is are only annoying if it is upvoted often enough, but then, there are obviously enough people out there who don't find it "lame". So saying "don't post lame submissions" is essentially the same as saying "don't post submissions which I personally don't like".
The assumption "Lots of people want to see it, therefore it is worthy" is false on its face. Lots of people want to see "Barney & Friends," but it is not appropriate for must venues — the people who want to see it are almost exclusively children. If your postulate were correct, we would all just be on Slashdot and Digg, since people have always been able to vote there and thus the exact same content would be on top in a pure and open democracy.
Solving the problem of users voting up stupid stories and ruining the S:N ratio was one of the founding goals of HN. It is supposed to be a different kind of content, not just whatever the masses think is funny — and we need to try to ensure that or the site will become no better than Slashdot.
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#68It's one freaking day of the year. If you insist on being a total curmudgeon, can't you just skip the internet for a day? Come back tomorrow. If you miss one real article, the world will not come to a screeching halt.
There is nothing wrong with submitting really well played April Fools stories (IMO). But we don't need to see EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM posted here, just like we don't expect to see EVERY SINGLE startup news blog story posted here.
Curate things a little bit, don't just post-flood and expect it all to be sorted out with votes.
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#69Get a sense of humor man.
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#70Come on, one day without rules why the heck not? We're coding, hacking, reading and informing ourselves all year long. There isn't something bad with Google dancing to write an email or TechCrunch giving false hopes to startups! And if you do not like April Fools day, no problem; don't open your browser and continue coding :)