I think it's the instant spam button for Hacker News.
Instant share button for Hacker News
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Re: Instant share button for Hacker News
#22as much as like this idea, I dont like this idea. I think to true value in HN lays in the fact its not hugely popular in masses. It has its own group of brilliant hackers, programmers, lawyers, writers, etc, that are willing to spend time to read/write BECAUSE there is interesting stuff to read here, and other interesting people are willing to read what they want to write. If everyone jumps on this ship, most likely…
I find this idea of trying to maintain a certain "elite" quality quite silly. This sort of growth is a natural phenomenon that happens to valuable sites like HN. Trying to prevent growth in a certain area (i.e. the less awesome people who you like here) will prevent growth in all areas—e.g. HN buttons could also promote HN to great but new hackers. If you stop these guys from getting involved, you'll cut off the life…
> You'll cut off the lifeblood of a community whose participants are moving very quickly past the phase where they're excited to be involved in such a community—people get successful, busy, jaded, etc.
I was about to respond to this with something to the effect of: "What have you observed that suggests in any way that the community is moving on?"
Then I looked at your credentials. It seems as though the kind of person you're describing as having moved on/become far too busy/etc is, well, you.
So it's possible that you might be conflating your own experience with the group's as a whole. Hacker News appears to me to be growing at quite a pace - independently of any such buttons or notions of elitism. In fact, I think the notion that it's growing precisely because of the elitism of quality, is worth considering.
(P.S. Love your work by the way - it's got such a superb sense of design.)
Re: Instant share button for Hacker News
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's just extremely silly how people don't want other people on HN, as if they are any different.
I wonder why you didn't just say that, then. But again note that the comment you're responding to is parroting something 'pg himself has said.
I was upset, I find the elitist attitude to be extremely irritating. Should've waited a few minutes to cool off before responding. The fact that it's pg's opinion doesn't mean anything to me, though.
Re: Instant share button for Hacker News
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find this idea of trying to maintain a certain "elite" quality quite silly. This sort of growth is a natural phenomenon that happens to valuable sites like HN. Trying to prevent growth in a certain area (i.e. the less awesome people who you like here) will prevent growth in all areas—e.g. HN buttons could also promote HN to great but new hackers. If you stop these guys from getting involved, you'll cut off the life…
> You'll cut off the lifeblood of a community whose participants are moving very quickly past the phase where they're excited to be involved in such a community—people get successful, busy, jaded, etc. I was about to respond to this with something to the effect of: "What have you observed that suggests in any way that the community is moving on?" Then I looked at your credentials. It seems as though the kind of perso…
Thanks for your kind words. I don't consider myself one of these people. I love reading the content I find through HN and participating in the discussions from time to time. I really don't want to see it die due to the misplaced efforts to prevent the same.