...and links form medium.com, please!)
Unfortunately, it can't be helped. The visitors set up trends. As long as it just a popular tech site the quality of its content will match the average intelligence of its visitors.
Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
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Re: Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
#132Paul Revere just rode by shouting something. Back to bed then?
Re: Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
#133Please post more about Snowden, PRISM, NSA, GCHQ, and all the rest. I will upvote every one of them. For those who think that "we all know essentially how this will end", think about what the world would look like if every major change had been met with this kind of pitiful attitude. Every revolution, every change for the better, has come out of people rejecting that sentiment. It's not too late to turn away from the…
Mass upvoting helps exactly nobody. It's slacktivism, not activism. If you feel strongly about this cause, I would encourage you to stop mass upvoting, and get involved in the real world. Perhaps your action would merit its own post to HN, and something that would inspire others to join you in action. You might end up doing something amazing.
Why not both?
Re: Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
#134This will be followed in 2 months by "why does the US have such a short attention span? Our news cycle is too short for anything to every happen."
I'm very happy to have my sacred tech news site "cluttered" with Snowden stories because it means that enough people, like me, still care about them.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
#135"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
Re: Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
#136If I m not mistaken, the PRISM story is directly related to the IT sector. If surveillance is going to be a permanent situation in online media, people will grow reluctant to use them over time.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
#137Do you honestly believe we've understood this surveillance complex enough that we can keep on with our lives? Why accept that "PRISM [won't go] away" or that "Snowden's fate is grim"? Honestly? Is this cause not worth fighting for anymore?
It's pathetic the defeatist attitude the majority of americans have. We finally get a week or so of pushing these sort of stories to the front page and now people are complaining. Ironically if you look at a list of recent submissions by this "peterwwillis", you will see a list of boring nothing-to-see-here content that should also be downvoted due to a lack of originality and new content. Anchoring (wikipedia.org) -…
Please dont make this a personal issue about just OP. Hundreds of upvotes on this -- he's clearly not alone.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
#138Please post more about Snowden, PRISM, NSA, GCHQ, and all the rest. I will upvote every one of them. For those who think that "we all know essentially how this will end", think about what the world would look like if every major change had been met with this kind of pitiful attitude. Every revolution, every change for the better, has come out of people rejecting that sentiment. It's not too late to turn away from the…
As of this comment, my parent comment above has 127 points - showing that I'm far from alone in this sentiment. Thanks guys, we're fighting the good fight. Let's win.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
#139This is the most riveting real-life drama in history, and it's unfolding before our eyes. I want more stories on Snowden, not less (although my productivity will surely suffer). Besides, half the stuff that gets voted up to front page is regurgitated anyway.
Is it? It feels more like an "Edward Snowden Goes to Cuba" road trip movie right now.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good lord, there was something up here this morning that talked about the pizza and fried chicken Snowden had for his birthday. Before that, it was 'his girlfriend's a pole dancer and here's the cache of her deleted blog'. This guy stabbed his own cause in the back by going public, doing press interviews, and doing whatever else he could to make the story all about him, and for some inexplicable reason y'all want to…
> This guy stabbed his own cause in the back by going public, doing press interviews, and doing whatever else he could to make the story all about him Really? Because I don't think "the goal" is to get detailed articles written up in blogs that will show up on Hacker News, I think "the goal" is to get the story out to as many people as possible and raise its profile in hopes of influencing governments. And you have t…
Yeah, really. Just anecdotal, of course, but from my own conversations with (and eavesdropping on) normal people around my town, it's clear that some people know who Snowden is and are following his travels but they don't have the slightest clue what he revealed. 'Some military secret to the Chinese' is the best guess I've gotten so far.