Purge Complete: No more Erlang, _why, or Zed

#1

Post by bradgessler » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 8:51 PM UTC

I think we've cleared out all of the crap about _why and Zed. Shall we call it quits and get things back to normal around here?

Re: Purge Complete: No more Erlang, _why, or Zed

#2

Post by ErrantX » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 8:53 PM UTC

Agreed.

the _why guff (not the original news all the "eulogies" etc) was getting a bit heavy but this is much worse.

Re: Purge Complete: No more Erlang, _why, or Zed

#3

Post by bradgessler » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 8:54 PM UTC

ErrantX wrote: post #2

Agreed. the _why guff (not the original news all the "eulogies" etc) was getting a bit heavy but this is much worse.

Yes, it seems like logic and reasoning escaped HN when those started getting voted up.

Re: Purge Complete: No more Erlang, _why, or Zed

#4

Post by boundlessdreamz » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 9:03 PM UTC

I don't understand this. The articles about _why sometimes were a little weird [analyzing him] but there were enough people in HN interested in it and _why was one of the greatest hackers in the ruby world.

The last time there was a deluge of erlang articles, it was to scare away a new wave of newbies. In this case the erlang articles are pushing out legitimate articles and very few of the erlang articles have any real discussion going on. I don't think, the tactic of erlang article flooding was appropriate this time.

Re: Purge Complete: No more Erlang, _why, or Zed

#5

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 9:06 PM UTC

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #4

I don't understand this. The articles about _why sometimes were a little weird [analyzing him] but there were enough people in HN interested in it and _why was one of the greatest hackers in the ruby world. The last time there was a deluge of erlang articles, it was to scare away a new wave of newbies. In this case the erlang articles are pushing out legitimate articles and very few of the erlang articles have any re…

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Re: Purge Complete: No more Erlang, _why, or Zed

#6

Post by ednapiranha » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 9:08 PM UTC

bradgessler wrote: post #3

ErrantX wrote: post #2

Agreed. the _why guff (not the original news all the "eulogies" etc) was getting a bit heavy but this is much worse.

Yes, it seems like logic and reasoning escaped HN when those started getting voted up.

people are logical and reasonable? since when? :)

Re: Purge Complete: No more Erlang, _why, or Zed

#7

Post by freetard » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 9:10 PM UTC

Thanks, the front page looks much better now.

Edit: The erlang crap is still there.

Re: Purge Complete: No more Erlang, _why, or Zed

#8

Post by johnbender » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 9:11 PM UTC

I'm interested in all three of those subjects, particularly the first. Does that mean I shouldn't hang around HN anymore?

Re: Purge Complete: No more Erlang, _why, or Zed

#9

Post by zedshaw » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 9:13 PM UTC

Oh man, that's funny. So you purge articles about a programming language, about a legendary hacker, and about me off of "hacker news".

Yet, every other day you've got those crap posts from the Mixergy guy, random posts about idiotic sexist dating theories, a billion VC posts, and everything from techcrunch.

Apparently, "normal" at HN means "douche".

Keep on rockin' in the free world brother,

Zed

Re: Purge Complete: No more Erlang, _why, or Zed

#10

Post by jvyduna » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 9:17 PM UTC

zedshaw wrote: post #9

Oh man, that's funny. So you purge articles about a programming language, about a legendary hacker, and about me off of "hacker news". Yet, every other day you've got those crap posts from the Mixergy guy, random posts about idiotic sexist dating theories, a billion VC posts, and everything from techcrunch. Apparently, "normal" at HN means "douche". Keep on rockin' in the free world brother, Zed

You'll be ok. I've never seen anything endanger your ego :)