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Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by k3n »

jackgavigan wrote: post #97

For context: I'm sat on a trading floor in the City of London right now. I had a similar idea (inspired by Slashdot) about ten years ago but, like so many of my great ideas (e.g. time travel, teleportation), I never got around to implementing it. A site like BoredBanker.com will almost certainly be targeted by wannabes, trolls and banker-haters. If you don't keep them off the site, real bankers will be turned off by…

Good ideas, but I wouldn't give pre-screened users the keys to the kingdom right away. I think it's an unwritten law that trolls and sockpuppets are going to exist in every industry, and just because someone comes from company X doesn't mean that they're going to be a quality user. You could relax the requirements to attain full membership perhaps, but I sure wouldn't give them the means to easily manipulate the system at-will with nothing more than an email address.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by dfc »

Dwolb wrote: post #150
dfc wrote: post #147

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I do not think the GMAT is a good indicator for civil service positions. Certainly no better than any of the state civil service exams and at the federal level the civil service exams were deemed to cause problems with affirmative action policies. The military has the ASVAB and I can't imagine anyone saying the GMAT is superior to the ASVAB. The small "d" democrat in me finds exams for public office abhorrent and I w…

Interesting! I was skeptical of the GMAT until I studied and took the test. My personal opinion is GMAT is a very difficult test and studying for the test sharpened my own writing, logic, and reasoning skills. I am very impressed with the cognitive ability of the test takers in the very highest percentage.

For testing logic and reasoning I think the LSAT is the best as far as the popular standardized tests go. I think the ASVAB is the best all around test for getting a general idea of an applicants skills.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by nick2021 »

It's so nice how the site is so much quicker than Hacker News. My usual routine is to fire up HN and then go make coffee so that by the time I'm done it's ready. Then when I'm viewing comments or articles I ALWAYS open in a new tab so that I don't have to wait again.

I have an N64 that I think I could convert into a web server that could run this site faster using a windows emulator that emulates linux that emulates windows which is running IIS.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by akinity »

tptacek wrote: post #139
stevejalim wrote: post #102

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Related to this, take a look at how lobste.rs handles new members: you either need an invitation from an existing one (and your behaviour is associated with that person in the public tree of membership referrals) or you go into a member-visible queue until someone who knows you and is a member can invite you personally.

Net result: nobody uses lobste.rs.

10 points to Gryffindor!

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by DrStalker »

Dwolb wrote: post #109
jackgavigan wrote: post #97

For context: I'm sat on a trading floor in the City of London right now. I had a similar idea (inspired by Slashdot) about ten years ago but, like so many of my great ideas (e.g. time travel, teleportation), I never got around to implementing it. A site like BoredBanker.com will almost certainly be targeted by wannabes, trolls and banker-haters. If you don't keep them off the site, real bankers will be turned off by…

One alternate mechanism (there could be several) sure to ruffle feathers is to qualify users by their GMAT score (e.g. 700+ only), assuming such information were easily verifiable. Such a 'qualification club' is inline with my own view of the type of exclusivity sought after by sterotyped or caricature B-school personalities.

Is GMAT an American thing? I'm in Australia and have never heard of it.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by tptacek »

akinity wrote: post #154
tptacek wrote: post #139

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Net result: nobody uses lobste.rs.

10 points to Gryffindor!

It sounds snarky, but I don't mean it that way. I like the guy who runs lobste.rs and I'm happy he published the code, and I'd really like HN to have some real competition. But, sorry, nobody uses lobste.rs. It's a ghost town.

For what it's worth, I think the answer to site quality isn't pre-filtering users; it's having a simple process to nuke bad users. Lobste.rs put a big bet on pre-filtering; it hasn't worked out. I'm not surprised; one thing I look for on great HN threads is the random first-party (owner of company, primary author of package, &c) commenter who joins just to comment on that story, which is something that can't happen in the pre-filter model.

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by garybizzle »

tdeangelis wrote: post #24
nicklovescode wrote: post #2

I'm not a member of your target audience, but I can't imagine BoredBanker is a very motivating name for people to start interesting discussions.

That is true: I was going for a funny and short name that's easy to remember, but I realize now how boredBanker comes across as lazy and not conducive to interesting discussions. EDIT: I am currently considering changing the domain (and the title)

Bored banker here. I think it's a great name. It shows that even though a lot of people look at the finance world as high-energy and lucrative, in reality it's a bunch of overly-confident young guns looking at spreadsheets all day. I felt like the domain was calling my name..

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by rschmitty »

GigabyteCoin wrote: post #30
kumarski wrote: post #16

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The creator needs to buy boardbanker.com as well.

Why? Who owns hackernews.com?

I feel bad but I sometimes forget ycombinator and google hacker news when I'm away from a device I own/have HN bookmarked.

Kinda like how you forget your wife's phone number.. I know I should know it but I always click her name in the address book :)

Re: Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

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Post by elwell »

Dirlewanger wrote: post #116
Brakenshire wrote: post #49

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Metafilter is another example of a website which has maintained its character. They ask for a $5 lifetime membership fee.

Retained its character at the expense of being stuck in the mid 2000s. For a modern aggregator they have a shit layout to be honest. A site that gets as much traffic as they do and they still have flat comments?? Inexcusable.

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