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Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.

#91

Post by robg »

biohacker42 wrote: post #90
robg wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You haven't pointed to evidence of it happening here . One political post every hundred or so (if that - I doubt it) doesn't tell me the sky is falling. Testing the predicted feedback loop, especially for #1 and #2, would seem to required actual evidence of #1 and #2 happening here .

I agree, let's not continue arguing on the internet. My hypothesis is: As this place continue to gain in popularity it will continue to become more generic and reddit like. I hope to be proven wrong.

Obviously you're not alone.

But almost 600 days and with a major election upcoming there have been very few mentions of it. Celebrate the positives!

Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.

#92

Post by edw519 »

robg wrote: post #64
edw519 wrote: post #44

TTTTTT 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.

Visiting less often is certainly not going to help.

You're right. I'll try to contribute more. (After a few hundred more LOC.)

Feels good just talking about it.

Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.

#94

Post by lemonysnicket »

edw519 wrote: post #44

TTTTTT 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…

you can't be serious.

is this MySpace?

understand the sentiments, but this is a tad bit ridiculous. everybody talking about doing instead of doing, and getting super excited when someone suggests more talking...

Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.

#95

Post by astine »

davidw wrote: post #76
ssharp wrote: post #18

Business and economics are extremely relative to this user base. A core understanding of how the economy is doing, where it's headed, etc. is very important. If Web 2.0 is moving to the enterprise, then understanding what's happening in business is VERY important. Since this is an entrepreneurial community, this information is significantly more relevant than the 20,000th person asking what to do to start learning LI…

I find economics fascinating. The unfortunate fact is, though, that most economic discussions very rapidly degrade into libertarians vs non libertarians or capitalists vs socialists, or something along those lines. Another popular one is Austrian economics vs Mainstream economics.

It's difficult to have a high level discussion on something if you don't agree on a low level.

For example: individuals from the Austrian and Neo-Classical schools will necessarily have a different understanding of the current financial crisis. As such, they'll have to reconcile their underlying theories in order to coherently debate the implications of those theories.

It's rather unfortunate, I think we could largely limit such discussions to just the points relevant to 'hackers,' but I don't think that we could avoid such degeneration altogether.

Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.

#96

Post by alexk »

robg wrote: post #72
aslkjdf wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your right. I'll stop posting comments complaining and go somewhere else. By the way, again, please try and get the point of what people say instead of trying discredit them. If you don't think i'm enough a part of the community to dawn upon you a valid observation then so be it. As if you can't spot a problem only through observation. I won't be posting here any longer. Good job building the community robg.

Instead of going elsewhere, why not simply submit content that you think is better? As for my complaints on your comments, it's very strange for me to read complaints from someone who has done nothing (quite literally) to fix the problem they're complaining about. You have that power just as much as I do. Why not make use of it?

Sometimes you need to express your opinion to start a discussion.

Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.

#97

Post by danielrhodes »

mattchew wrote: post #13

A continued focus on political articles will attract people who enjoy endless and mostly pointless arguments about politics. It is a path to HN becoming another reddit. Political articles are like junk food. Tempting while they're right in front of you. A little bit of indulgence is OK. Not good as a steady diet. PG has said that he thinks he can prevent deterioration of content on HN. I think this problem is actuall…

I think the risk of this is inherently lower considering the unambiguous name of the site. However, everybody here is responsible for the articles being on the front page considering they upvoted them. It's hard for a community to be so singular in its focus.

Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.

#98

Post by robg »

wumi wrote: post #93

12:13 PDT 4 articles in the top 60 listings on hacker news (and only one on the front page) about financial or political news. doesn't seem too out-of-whack.

Or 6.7%.

doesn't seem too out-of-whack.

Most especially considering the what is happening in the world - a major, and highly contested, election and a major financial collapse. If that's the high-water mark, this community really is very strong at resisting the drift tendencies. We should be celebrating that success.

Re: Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.

#100

Post by KirinDave »

People talk about news.ycombinator.com like it's somehow special and destined for something greater than "Another Reddit."

I'm sorry, but there is simply no evidence that this is the case. All social news sites have a lifespan before they become intolerable bastions foolish commentry. I am here as opposed to reddit for the time being because this is still the least ridiculous social news site I can find.

I am sad about it, but I accept that one day news.ycomb will be just another reddit.

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