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Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple's BOD is Politics how? Take your smug sense of superiority, turn that sumbitch sideways, and stick it up your candy ass.

Your comment is extremely disrespectful, and I believe erroneous.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics , "There is no academic consensus on the exact definition of "Politics" and what counts as political and what does not. Max Weber defined politics as the struggle for power." I found that definition applicable.

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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shouldn't you have posted this to the reddit images section?

The irony of the screencap commentary format was intentional.

I'm sure that's exactly what everyone else on Digg/Reddit would say. Now, why don't you actually take the time to formulate your thoughts on why HN fails to meet your expectations and what could be done about it. Until then, please stop contributing to the problem.

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Why I don't find your post useful. http://www.notoriousbrk.com/blah.jpg

Funny, but I've made suggestions in the past. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

For those who are curious this is the "suggestions" made

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=90944

Inclusion of every new post or exclusion of every post from a particular website at user's discretion. Regexp based? Just to prevent the site from effectively becoming an RSS reader.

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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These articles that you think are useless put the technology we love to read about into a social context. I personally think this site has a great balance of low-level programming topics and high-level context articles. If the site ONLY had the articles you deem as "useful" then it wouldn't be so damn addictive and wouldn't be nearly as popular. I'm sure you'd love a small community so that you can feel special that you know about something no one else does - but I think Y Combinator is probably trying to build a popular site that they can potentially make money on some day. To that end they're doing a hell of a job so far.

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, but I've made suggestions in the past. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

For those who are curious this is the "suggestions" made http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=90944 Inclusion of every new post or exclusion of every post from a particular website at user's discretion. Regexp based? Just to prevent the site from effectively becoming an RSS reader.

Also suggested was a killfile, which I think is the better suggestion.

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple's BOD is Politics how? Take your smug sense of superiority, turn that sumbitch sideways, and stick it up your candy ass.

Your comment is extremely disrespectful, and I believe erroneous. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics , "There is no academic consensus on the exact definition of "Politics" and what counts as political and what does not. Max Weber defined politics as the struggle for power." I found that definition applicable.

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