I tend to like most of the stuff I find on this site. I like the CS/Hacker stuff, as well as the science, tech, math, and other 'intellectually stimulating' stuff. I dislike articles that seem to have nothing to do with intellectual curiosity, or seem to be appealing to a very specific viewpoint (aka politically/culturally biased, instead of being intellectually enlightening).
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?
#52isn't hacking a subset of the intellectually stimulating?
Re: Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?
#53if you want cs/hacker + politics, go to reddit. I personally think the way the site is no is perfect, sure some offtopic stuff goes to the front page, but almost all of the content is cs/hacker/startup only
Reddit is cs/hacker + socialist politics + flamewars. Also, I find that comment to be very akin to "if you don't like something about America, move to another country."
The problem is that its a slippery slope, as you relax the rules on the content, it'll get worse and worse. So before long HH will be another reddit clone with 1/10th of stories on the front page being even remotely relevant, and the rest is nothing but regurgitated blog spam
Re: Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit is cs/hacker + socialist politics + flamewars. Also, I find that comment to be very akin to "if you don't like something about America, move to another country."
The problem is that its a slippery slope, as you relax the rules on the content, it'll get worse and worse. So before long HH will be another reddit clone with 1/10th of stories on the front page being even remotely relevant, and the rest is nothing but regurgitated blog spam
I don't know if it'd ever get as bad as reddit... PG's a smart guy, but he needs to give us a sign of how he's going to deal with the problem. A shoe, say, or a gourd...
Re: Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?
#55This 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.
It doesn't appear to be as simple as that. Some new articles are accessible but others are not. It's confusing.
Re: Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?
#56There are lots of places for general-purpose news. I think HN's strength is in specializing.
However, what are you really proposing? How is the topic list enforced? What does PG think? If you intend to use after-the-fact methods like complaining to people who post offtopic stuff, that's just going to make things unpleasant.
Re: Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?
#57I'll be happy to see anything here but TechCrunch links. The f kin TechCrunch links for god sake!
TechCrunch seems to fit within everyone's definition of on-topic here.
Not mine. News for hackers ought to be more than just industry linkbait. It ought to be somewhat above trends and hype.
Re: Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?
#58I wish I could vote for 1 and 2, like "yes, cs/hacker stuff that's intellectually stimulating." news.ycombinator.com is less interesting to me now than when it was known as Startup News. In the year that it's been called "Hacker News" the posts have been far more general than I'd like. If I wanted that I'd spend time at Reddit.
news.ycombinator.com is less interesting to me now than when it was known as Startup News aka Evolution. EDIT: And for every single person who find HN less interesting, there are 100 new users who love what you have helped built. Be happy.
Hardly.
Not to sound rude or anything, but I don't give a crap about the other 100 users. I care about what news I read.
Ultimately this is pg's site and he can do whatever the heck he wants with it. Whenever I state my dislike of a specific article, I'm not making some grand statement about what YCNews should be to fulfill the purpose of the universe, only about what I personally would prefer to see (or not) on this site.
Re: Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?
#59CS/hacker is too narrow. Does OvercomingBias count as CS/hacker? Not really, it's more techno-philosophy.
I think general interest stories posted here should at least have some sort of technological angle.
Re: Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only?
#60Seems like every one of the "this is off-topic" comments would be a vote again #2
I'm okay with #2, but I think #1 is in the best interests of the board. Anybody can run a #2 board.
People who are saying 'this is off-topic" are actually customers providing feedback that the content not only sucks, but shouldn't even be part of the offering. And they feel that way enough to write a comment and not simply down-vote and/or leave the board. To me, there's some valuable feedback going on there.
So I withhold my vote.