Solution: Vote up more interesting stuff from the new page to rise above the political stories
Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.
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Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
In almost 600 days, it hasn't happened yet. Even as this worry has been constant, I have seen little to no evidence of this shift. So how long before we can can the incessant worry? Another 600 days, perhaps?
It could be that the incessant worry has kept it at bay for 600 days. It's hard to tell.
I agree that it probably has. Still, even the techcrunch crunch didn't change things.
PG has said he monitors for drift and hasn't seen it. I presume that if he did he would change the guidelines accordingly.
Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your account was created 10 days ago. I don't see how you've interacted with this community enough to accurately judge what direction it's headed. Why not start by submitting stuff you deem worthy? That would be a more fruitful path toward course correction.
You can read a site and not be registered. I've been on this site for months but never chose to register an account. Found out about it on techcrunch about 6 months ago and have been reading every day since. Even shared and discuss it with my boss. Just like on digg, it took me 8 months before I joined. You can see a pattern through observation of submissions. Instead of trying to discredit me by the length of days o…
Except the only way to influence the direction of this community is by actually participating. And complaining about content does no good especially if you're not submitting content you deem better.
Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.
#64TTTTTT HH HH A NN N KK KK YY YY OOOOOO UU UU !! TT HH HH A N N N KK KK YY YY OO OO UU UU !! TT HHHHHH AAA N NN N KKKKK YY OO OO UU UU !! TT HH HH A A N N N KK KK YY OO OO UU UU TT HH HH AA AA N NN KK KK YY OOOOOO UUUUUU !! I'm visiting hn about 10% as often as I used to, but I didn't want to be one of those "not hn" complainers. Can we please have the real hn back? I miss it so much. (Please, let's talk more about pr…
The only way for you to get the "real" HN back is by submitting and upvoting content you deem appropriate. You've done that well previously. Visiting less often is certainly not going to help.
Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.
#65Politics has little direct relevance to hackers, in their capacity as hackers.
Economic and financial news may very well have enormous impact and relevance for entrepreneurial hackers, which I think is a large part of the hackers who follow Hacker News.
Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.
#66I just checked and could not find a single article about politics on the main page. Not counting those about political reactions to the financial markets crisis, but even those where only one or two.
Same here. I currently see exactly one political article and that is regarding the Palin hacking fallout, which is relevant to anyone designing a password recovery scheme. Not even one market crisis story.
...Except for this one complaining about them.
Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.
#67I also second this. I mean recent news about economy is important but I'm not interested in it. Likewise, for politics I can turn to so many other sources. So if there are more people like me then we should see a reduction in frequency of economics/politics related submissions. Lastly, Prakash, I don't think it was a true Black Swan .
Wow. You must have a pretty high threshold for Black Swans.
Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.
#68No politics. Please. That's why I like it here so much.No pseudo punditry and only technology. Now that's what we like.
Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.
#69Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site Isn't that exactly what you're doing too, though?
The guidelines don't matter for this discussion? It seems to me it's the only thing that should matter. Without them, this site has no focus whatsoever.
No, that's not what I'm saying. Although I agree with the OP that the political stuff is getting dull, I believe you have a point about the guidelines (that means I agree with you). However, complaining that the OP is going against the guidelines and therefore doing the same thing yourself seems somewhat hypocritical. Of course, here I am doing exactly the same thing really.
Surely you could just do what you/others have told the OP to do, and flag the 'submission'?