No, because HN doesn't have a good way to manage comments the way Reddit can. In Reddit, it's easy to close an entire thread if you're not interested in it, but HN natively does not have this facility. I've seen some hacks that allow this, but if it were available natively on HN, it would make perusing the comments a lot easier.
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?
#52One of the most fun and interesting parts of participating in YC were the weekly dinners w/ guest speakers.
Perhaps something similar might be appropriate, i.e. a weekly IAmA related to start-ups / hacker culture.
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#53AmA on HN will be more effective as people on reditt, do tend to troll around on some questions. That said, it would be better to have a collaboration with reditt to allow general users to join in as well.
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#54From 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.
user: jcroll created: 160 days ago Sorry, I had to :)
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#55What I would like to see (if we are having a meta conversation on HN) is a view for the "Show HN" posts (like the "Ask" link above). What I enjoy the most here are the posts where people show cool stuff they've done, and it would be nice to have a separate view just for those (when I don't feel like wading through articles covering the Tesla/NYT scandal or whatever is the melodrama of the week)
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#56I voted No. I think it would be a distraction, although you could probably find willing candidates.
Hacker News is not as large as Reddit, and I think it's more useful to have everyone on a more or less equal level.
It's a simple community for technical and technology news matters. We have an Ask feature, but I also wouldn't recommend instituting a system similar to StackOverflow (even though we probably have a higher average level of technical ability on HN).
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#57Bigger problem at hand: too much non-technology related articles are being posted on Hacker News.
I agree. The articles on intellectual property and patent law seem to have paved the way for off-topic political articles.
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#58No.
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#59Why don't we let Reddit be Reddit, and HN be HN? Why would I want HN to be a megaphone for Famous Joe Blow X when I'd much rather have him actively participating and helping out in the threads with the rest of us? This is a very bad idea in my opinion. Since I have no clue how to run a busy site, that means it'll probably happen. :)
It can be both. An AMA is "Ask me anything" which is more focused on somebody (Or something that happened).. which is very different than the same person posting a meaningful comment on a discussion. As far as I know, PG regularly comments on HN and there are often links to his essay or interviews. An AMA isn't so much different than an interview...
To me, it would be ideal if AMAs were split off into their own site, rather than piggybacking off HN or Reddit. Same with ELI5.
(Also, the meta-implications of the fact that this poll is asking about AMAs rather than ELI5 amuses me.)
Re: Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?
#60Please, stop these polls. Nothing comes of them.