Why was this removed from the front page? That's how I reached it.
I Quit Hacker News (2010)
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Re: I Quit Hacker News (2010)
#12I have been less active since I lost my up voting (my fault,I had a few days when I up voted everything that hit the frontpage) and flag (no idea here) capabilities but there's no way I'm leaving hacker news.
I find more interesting content here than on any other site.You can probably configure reddit to get a similar output but it's not the same thing.
Re: I Quit Hacker News (2010)
#13Why was this removed from the front page? That's how I reached it.
Probably people flagging it as it's 3 years old.
Re: I Quit Hacker News (2010)
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#15I wish you all the best. I've contemplated quitting HN quite a few times as well, I might do it myself, but the community with all its flaws I still enjoy at times. There are a few people who think they're better than most, but that's not just a HN problem, it's a problem everywhere, people on HN are just better at articulating their point and getting upvotes. This part I couldn't agree more with: Fluff posts from Jo…
Re Chrome extension, I was thinking the same thing. There's a lot of rubbish posted here but also some gems - ESP from the older members I think, who have been sys admins or used Unix since the '90s or earlier. I keep a notebook of the most useful comments and bookmark others.
So a Chrome extension to filter again (eg tag comment as "technical", "ideology" and see what others do) could be v interesting.
Unfortunately the most thoughtful, most civil comment threads, seem to disappear the fastest off the home page - and attract the fewest participants. This could be a community issue or a chicken and egg situation...
Re: I Quit Hacker News (2010)
#16>Lack of a down-vote means vocal minorities are disproportionately represented. How many Hacker News users really want to see 5 stories about the TSA body scanners every time they log in?
Clearly some do, if these stories get upvoted. I think a better answer than downvoting would be a ways to organize and filter content besides the single-channel model which currently seems to assume either a homogenous community or content or both. Clearly useless and repetitive content should be flagged, but judging by the number of "this doesn't belong on HN / yes it does " comments i've seen, a lot of people have differing ideas of what Hacker News "should" be showing them.
> Votes on comments are used to express agreement or disagreement rather than value, perhaps because many people simply cannot see the difference between the two.
I believe upvotes and downvotes should only apply to threads themselves, and comments should be left alone. I'm sure i'm in the minority on this among HN users, but I think when you can downvote comments, then specious downvoting becomes inevitable because it's less work than coming up with a cogent or relevant comment.
Re: I Quit Hacker News (2010)
#17Semantics of an up-(or down)-vote is an issue (see here http://www.debiki.com/forum/-5rjf6-semantics-of-an-upvote for a short discussion on that). In short, I would love to have a place where I can easily filter things containing intellectual value, instead of popularity bar.
Re: I Quit Hacker News (2010)
#18Semantics of an up-(or down)-vote is an issue (see here http://www.debiki.com/forum/-5rjf6-semantics-of-an-upvote for a short discussion on that). In short, I would love to have a place where I can easily filter things containing intellectual value, instead of popularity bar.
I have the same issue, but I think PG swears that up/down voting is the thing, just because reddit does it too. Thank you for the link!
Re: I Quit Hacker News (2010)
#19@Qom How do you quit?
EDIT: ok, he just changed the password to something random.. :/ Dumb question, asking someone who left for how he left...oh man.. Sometimes I don't know where my mind is
@pg Please add a "disable account and delete my posts" button. Almost every site has that feature. It's disrespectful to assume somebody should not be ever able to leave. There is no way to disable your account, or delete all your posts. (I agree that submissions don't need to be deletable btw.)
Re: I Quit Hacker News (2010)
#20>Lack of a down-vote means vocal minorities are disproportionately represented. How many Hacker News users really want to see 5 stories about the TSA body scanners every time they log in? Clearly some do, if these stories get upvoted. I think a better answer than downvoting would be a ways to organize and filter content besides the single-channel model which currently seems to assume either a homogenous community or…
Glad to hear someone else think the same. I believe that it won't change in here though. Someone said: "If you don't like it, fork it" and this is probably true in this case. Maybe even a business opportunity.
However, I somehow lost the hope that bringing this topic would do any change. I even emailed pg, asking to delete my account including all my posts, but got no response ever. idk..