I like the idea of having AMAs here in HN.
I think you wanted the first option of the poll: "Yes"
Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
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#13Why this poll? I'm sure there'd be no problem if tomorrow morning we see "I'm #{@name}, founder of #{@awesome_thing}, AMA".
I'd imagine the main reason is just to promote the idea so people with connections might ask their connections to do an AMA.
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#14I'm an infrequent enough Reddit user that their odd argot and mile-long discussions about ponies are really a disincentive for me to read past the intro to an AMA. Using HN for topically relevant AMAs provide a welcome relief from Reddit's tiresome fractals of inane comments.
The trick is to set reddit preferences to only show comments rated 10 or higher. That'll cut down on most of the garbage, though you'll still get a lot of highly rated "funny" posts. But you can just minimize a thread once it starts devolving into nonsense.
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#15Here, I think it would end up more like "Argue with me about anything". Might still be fun though.
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#16Why this poll? I'm sure there'd be no problem if tomorrow morning we see "I'm #{@name}, founder of #{@awesome_thing}, AMA".
Some folks want HN to be sort of a super subreddit.
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#17It could be interesting, but I think Reddit is much better suited to multi-party discussions than HN. Reddit's commenting system is easier to navigate (cf. the hide button).
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#18As long as we don't get a daily AMA for every single startup founder out there ... Reddit already has quite a few of those amadverts.
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#19There's a lot of work and coordination (scheduling, moderation, proof) involved in the IAMA subreddit. I'm not sure we are interested in or capable of organizing all of that here.
Also reddit has a much wider audience. Having IAMA's here instead of reddit would only make sense for less widely known tech-centric folks.
Also keep in mind that there have been a couple sites (startups?) that tried to replicate the reddit IAMA format and basically they all went nowhere.
This is one thing reddit is pretty good at, that is hard to replicate, and that there is not much of a reason to replicate here.
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#20There are already a bunch of well known "technologists" who don't just show up to do one Q&A session, but regularly participate in the community, which is, IMO, even better.
And I'd rather they didn't think about going on HN as doing some media. Maybe we've reached that point anyway, but that would be a shame.