Remember reading it a while ago and half the front page was RoR circlejerk, seemed to have gotten much better lately.
Lobsters
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#112When it comes to learning, sharing, and growing together, online or otherwise, there are no competitors, winners, or losers. Just a bigger pie. (Good luck to lobste.rs, but I'll probably be staying right here on hn.)
I'd like to cite the Nader Principle: Groups of people with similar ideas should look for ways to compromise instead of splitting their effort.
There has always been value in collecting very different people with similar goals in one place. Greater diversity of perspective, backgrounds and points of view. I'm always a little sad to see a group of people split over a minor dispute or philosophical difference. It's taking what could be a great combined effort and diluting it.
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#113Explanation for the site being invite only: "Not for exclusivity, but rather, invitations will be used as a spam-control mechanism. New users must be invited by a current member and invitations will be unlimited (unless scaling problems temporarily prevent new accounts). If spammers are invited to the site and banned, the user that invited them may also be banned, going up the chain of invitations as needed." Seems b…
I’ll invite you, but you’ll have to put your email address in the “about” section of your HN profile first. (The address in the “email” section of your profile is not publicly viewable.) Or you can just write your email in a comment reply if you’d prefer.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
that's not entirely true, the amount of time any of us spends online looking at tech news is finite, therefore as the pie gets bigger some of the online communities shrink their viewership, have less participation and less engagement. So the idea of competition is actually quite valid. It's like saying there's room for Facebook and Google+, while that's true there definitely are winners and losers because user engage…
I think you either missed or ignored his point.
I think he/she accurately pointed out its flaws.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
JCS was banned from Hacker News? What the hell?
His post is mistaken. His account isn't banned. I banned it temporarily while waiting for a reply to my email, then unbanned it. (I often do this when I ask people to stop doing something, because I've found that some people keep resubmitting otherwise.) I don't remember exactly how much later that was, but usually it's less than a day; if it were longer I'd forget. If he'd replied to my email I would have unbanned h…
You should stop doing stuff like this. I know managing this site is an enormous pain, but these personal hellbans are terrible for the community.
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#116When it comes to learning, sharing, and growing together, online or otherwise, there are no competitors, winners, or losers. Just a bigger pie. (Good luck to lobste.rs, but I'll probably be staying right here on hn.)
I disagree with that notion. I've been a contributor on HN for around 5 years and over the period of time I've seen a constant decline in the quality of comments, community support (read some of the 'Show HN' posts) and to an extent even the quality of the stories submitted. A new improved hacker/startup community can be a serious contender for replacing HN (in its current state), just like Reddit is/was to Digg and…
I'm relatively new to HN (I understand that in a competitive, fast paced and big money industry there will be massive egos, but I could sure do without some of the jerks
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#117Can an existing user of Lobsters please send me an invite? (My email is in my profile.) According to https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters , the only reason Lobsters is invite-only is to prevent spammers from signing up. So if you want to check that I’m not a spammer, just glance at my past comments ( http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=roryokane ) and submissions ( http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ror…
I'd appreciate an invite as well. Email in profile, along with submission and comment history of course.
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#118When it comes to learning, sharing, and growing together, online or otherwise, there are no competitors, winners, or losers. Just a bigger pie. (Good luck to lobste.rs, but I'll probably be staying right here on hn.)
I disagree with that notion. I've been a contributor on HN for around 5 years and over the period of time I've seen a constant decline in the quality of comments, community support (read some of the 'Show HN' posts) and to an extent even the quality of the stories submitted. A new improved hacker/startup community can be a serious contender for replacing HN (in its current state), just like Reddit is/was to Digg and…
While this account is only approaching its 2 year anniversary, I was a lurker for a while before that. I do agree there has been some decline, but my biggest complaint about the comments these days are the complaints about the decline of HN. They are all over the place and to me are a bigger annoyance than anything that the actual comments are complaining about (except for the community support comment - that needs improving).
Not meant to single you out - just my opinion on the overall sentiment on HN these days.
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#119When it comes to learning, sharing, and growing together, online or otherwise, there are no competitors, winners, or losers. Just a bigger pie. (Good luck to lobste.rs, but I'll probably be staying right here on hn.)
I'd like to cite the Nader Principle: Groups of people with similar ideas should look for ways to compromise instead of splitting their effort. There has always been value in collecting very different people with similar goals in one place. Greater diversity of perspective, backgrounds and points of view. I'm always a little sad to see a group of people split over a minor dispute or philosophical difference. It's tak…
I agree with you in principle, but in practice it is hard to even have that discussion on HN, where metadiscussions are frowned upon, there is zero transparency into how moderation is conducted, and you can be hellbanned without explanation or recourse.
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#120Some stream of consciousness thoughts on the history of internet communities, particularly those centred around tech. Usenet had immense value in well defined subgroups prior to the Eternal September (and for some time after, regardless of what people may say). IRC ha(s|d) similar values, and remains a force within niche communities on the tech side. Slashdot was an early mover in the moderated community space which…
You forgot advogato