Running a startup

Post by joshmlewis » Thu, May 03, 2012, 1:21 PM UTC

philwelch wrote: post #9

evincarofautumn wrote: post #4

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The Guidelines[1] say it better than I can. “If your account is less than a year old, please don’t submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It’s a common semi-noob illusion.)” [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

My account is more than a year old, and after viewing the submitted link I have to agree with his assessment. Frankly, those guidelines were written years before HN actually did turn into Reddit. In any case, in lieu of casca's seniority, please accept mine as a waiver for that particular anachronistic guideline.

Post by niico » Thu, May 03, 2012, 1:34 PM UTC

Post by snitzr » Thu, May 03, 2012, 2:57 PM UTC

joshmlewis wrote: post #11

philwelch wrote: post #9

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My account is more than a year old, and after viewing the submitted link I have to agree with his assessment. Frankly, those guidelines were written years before HN actually did turn into Reddit. In any case, in lieu of casca's seniority, please accept mine as a waiver for that particular anachronistic guideline.

Reddit is..Reddit. I used to think Reddit was dumb and I started going deeper, and quite frankly Reddit scares the shit out of me sometimes. The occasional meme is funny but HN isn't near what Reddit is.

Post by philwelch » Thu, May 03, 2012, 10:24 PM UTC

evincarofautumn wrote: post #10

philwelch wrote: post #9

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My account is more than a year old, and after viewing the submitted link I have to agree with his assessment. Frankly, those guidelines were written years before HN actually did turn into Reddit. In any case, in lieu of casca's seniority, please accept mine as a waiver for that particular anachronistic guideline.

That’s fair. Still, I don’t think the occasional low-quality link means HN is transmogrifying into Reddit, or otherwise declining.