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Re: Lobsters

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Post by ktizo »

seanalltogether wrote: post #161
subsection1h wrote: post #64

I want a site for discussing software development news that has the equivalent of a kill file. There are a handful of prolific users at Hacker News who post multiple low-quality messages every day. I avoid Hacker News because of users such as these. I honestly believe that at least a few of these users are secretly employed by the companies that they promote and defend daily. I don't know if they're paid to post here…

I see this idea pop up on every community I've been involved in, and the simple answer is that it's extremely taxing to build individual comment pages for individual users. So this type of thing usually gets passed back to end users in the form of "build a browser plugin to hide these people on the client side"

If you want to do it on the client side, it would be perfectly easy to script it on the page.

Re: Lobsters

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Post by ibisum »

edw519 wrote: post #28

When 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.)

Personally, I'm always glad to see a new blog/forum/collector/thingy like this start up.

Since the days of /. and before, all the 'new social online scene' collectives have been a blast. I can't conceive of a new such effort as being anything but a positive thing ..

Re: Lobsters

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Post by st3fan »

shanelja wrote: post #126
hnriot wrote: post #33

Earlier 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 applied for lobste.rs, sending an 8 paragraph email about myself, the admin didn't even take the time to reply to me, which I find extremely rude, if I am too lowly for his application, then letting me know how to improve would really have been polite. As it is, because of how I was treat by them, I have an extreme aversion to this website. I don't see it as competition for HN, I was merely curious about the commun…

Wait, what? You have to apply for lobste.rs? What kind of nonsense is that?

Re: Lobsters

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Post by shanelja »

st3fan wrote: post #183
shanelja wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I applied for lobste.rs, sending an 8 paragraph email about myself, the admin didn't even take the time to reply to me, which I find extremely rude, if I am too lowly for his application, then letting me know how to improve would really have been polite. As it is, because of how I was treat by them, I have an extreme aversion to this website. I don't see it as competition for HN, I was merely curious about the commun…

Wait, what? You have to apply for lobste.rs? What kind of nonsense is that?

Yeah, it's invite only too, so the idea is, you lower yourself and apply or you get invited by a friend because they like you.

So the end result is either it's full of really friendly, intelligent, hand picked people, or it becomes a clique full of friends who are less than intelligent.

Re: Lobsters

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Post by carlesfe »

tomwalsham wrote: post #88

Some 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…

I'm curious, are there any active newsgroups worth visiting and discussing?

I used to roam some groups until about 2003, but most of them are pretty much abandoned now, and I haven't been able to find the same level of discussion on the Internet

Re: Lobsters

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Post by carlesfe »

roryokane wrote: post #113
rauljara wrote: post #41

Explanation 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.

Hi, if you have any left, I'd very much appreciate one.

carlos.fenollosa at gmail

Thanks!

Re: Lobsters

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Post by [deleted] »

roryokane wrote: post #113
rauljara wrote: post #41

Explanation 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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Re: Lobsters

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Post by J3L2404 »

tptacek wrote: post #115
pg wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hell banned?

Re: Lobsters

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Post by finnw »

Xcelerate wrote: post #23

Huh, this looks pretty cool. I like the transparency. JCS, can I get an invitation?

How about allowing automated signup for read-only accounts? I don't want to post comments on lobste.rs, but it would be nice to have access to other features (e.g. tag-based filtering.)
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