I wish HN had followable tags.
Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
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Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#22The idea sounds great, but there is a big caveat.
I think it will draw a lot of crowd to HN, which PG wouldn't like.
One one hand you need to keep the registrations open for newcomers to ask good questions, on the other hand a lot of signups will be from a section of Redditors not used to HN etiquette. I remember that signups are sometimes disabled on HN whenever there is a popular link to here from Reddit.
Also, HN has no means right now of highlighting the submitter of the post, unlike on Reddit.
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#23I'd rather focus on ideas than personalities. What about "ask me anything about X", where X is a software package/device/publication/etc.
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#24Only if there was some way to monitor the quality of the people doing AMA.
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#25Should this community worry about attracting the wrong crowd?
If everyone and their moms start getting attracted to this site then could that not start reducing the voting power of people who are actually interested in technology?
Listen, the only thing I'm trying to do is prevent this community from turning into Cats and Porn like reddit has become.
Lots of well known people participate in the discussion and will answer questions if you ask them.
Maybe HN needs better searching and filtering capabilities first.
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#26I would really appreciate that because I am a senior in college and I'm trying to figure out where I want to go and what type of job would be best.
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#27There 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.
Problem is that it's not immediately obvious who they are just from their usernames. So it's easy to skip over their contributions.
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#28From the HN guidelines:
> 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.)
I would suggest that if you do proceed with the AMA's that you amend the guidelines and remove that clause.
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#29In all fairness, shouldn't this be something to ask pg about instead of a poll?
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#30Here, I think it would end up more like "Argue with me about anything". Might still be fun though.
Maybe an "Discussion" section of HN and leave the main board for true "News"?