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Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?

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Re: Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?

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Post by mattmaroon »

CaptainMorgan wrote: post #3

This is a tough vote for me, because I enjoy spending my time with CS/hacker related content and yet I fancy politics. But what I do have a problem with is the links to subscription-only content. Very often, it appears that the Wall Street Journal articles are submitted and approved to HN, but when I go to try and view this article(usually with a great title- often that might be something I would like to read), it tu…

I think we can all agree that stuff behind a paywall sucks.

Re: Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?

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Post by mattmaroon »

qqq wrote: post #8

It's best if the site is officially hacker stuff only. The balance now is pretty good; if other topics had explicit approval they'd get a lot more common.

Other topics do have explicit approval, given the current guidelines. That seems to be the cause of the constant stream of "this is off topic" comments.

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Post by rickd »

ashleyw wrote: post #10

Around what it is now, I think. Though you've got to remember a lot of people here aren't in the US, so while all the US politics would be interesting to the American hackers, what about hackers from other parts of the world, which very likely make up more of a percentage combined than Americans? Thats why I would prefer for submissions to be: "Something an english speaking hacker anywhere in the world would be inter…

"Something an english speaking hacker anywhere in the world would be interested in"

This is exactly what got me hooked on HN in the beginning, and this is exactly what I want to keep seeing! Excellent way of phrasing it.

Re: Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?

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Post by rms »

CaptainMorgan wrote: post #3

This is a tough vote for me, because I enjoy spending my time with CS/hacker related content and yet I fancy politics. But what I do have a problem with is the links to subscription-only content. Very often, it appears that the Wall Street Journal articles are submitted and approved to HN, but when I go to try and view this article(usually with a great title- often that might be something I would like to read), it tu…

I think the WSJ articles go subscription 1-2 weeks after they are published. So they are free for a while and then they disappear from the internet.

Re: Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?

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Post by mattmaroon »

sh1mmer wrote: post #6

I would add a forth choice personally: mostly cs/hacker stuff, with some intellectually stimulating stuff That's actually the balance I feel we have right now. I voted for "no, anything intellectually stimulating" because that seems to be what we have no and it seems to be working (for me).

I didn't put that in because as a guideline it's unenforceable. But given the current guidelines, it does seem to create what we have now (which I too like).

I only posted this poll because the only thing I'm 100% sure is valueless and off-topic is the "this is off-topic" comment that invariably ends up on anything not overtly CS/startup related.

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