Hell-banned and slow-banned? I didn't know that mods for HN would do that to users they disagree with.
Spammers, I can understand....but users you disagree with.
Wow....just wow.
Lobsters
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#142I would like an invitation also - if someone is monitoring this and giving new ones away.
Thanks :)
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#143Explanation for the site being invite only: "Not for exclusivity, but rather, invitations will be used as a spam-control mechanism. New users must be invited by a current member and invitations will be unlimited (unless scaling problems temporarily prevent new accounts). If spammers are invited to the site and banned, the user that invited them may also be banned, going up the chain of invitations as needed." Seems b…
I’ll invite you, but you’ll have to put your email address in the “about” section of your HN profile first. (The address in the “email” section of your profile is not publicly viewable.) Or you can just write your email in a comment reply if you’d prefer.
I'd appreciate an invite. My email address is in my profile for the moment.
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#144if reddit and HN had a child, it would look like lobster.
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#145It's a shame there isn't an about page that suggests what will be different (or better) about lobste.rs from HN. If it's just a clone site where a different set of people post the same articles and similar comments, I won't waste my time.
There is an about page, though there’s no link to it on the site: https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I DO blame PG for the mindless enforcement of the "Title MUST match the linked page's title" rule. Sometimes this is a good rule but there really are exceptions! EXAMPLE: This very post was actually submitted with the title Yehuda Katz launches HN competitor - Lobsters but then some mod just changed it to 'lobsters' which means absolutely nothing. How is that an improvement? EDIT: Please invite me to Lobsters!
Well, it's an improvement on the basis of stopping the spread of false information; Yehuda Katz did not create lobsters. jcs did. Sure, the edit could have been both more correct and more informative, but most people have better things than endlessly (re)correct trivial and inconsequential stuff like titles that might matter for only a handful of hours. My question for you is, "When you're on your death bed with flee…
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#147Some stream of consciousness thoughts on the history of internet communities, particularly those centred around tech. Usenet had immense value in well defined subgroups prior to the Eternal September (and for some time after, regardless of what people may say). IRC ha(s|d) similar values, and remains a force within niche communities on the tech side. Slashdot was an early mover in the moderated community space which…
Communities come and go. Small herds migrate towards the latest point of interest and some stick. Groupthink is a large driver of community malaise, certainly within the tech discussion arena. Individuals dominate submissions and discussions and evolve to minor demagogue status. Some communities evolve to tackle a smaller arena than just the general topical discussion field, but topicality remains critical.
I agree with this, but this is also why I have now come to seriously question why anyone would be interested in investing in any community-based site. Let's not mistake that for social networks (which in of themselves have their own potential issues). But regarding community-based sites, I can't ever see any as having long-term value, not after all the carcasses I see lying in decay on the web. :(
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree with that notion. I've been a contributor on HN for around 5 years and over the period of time I've seen a constant decline in the quality of comments, community support (read some of the 'Show HN' posts) and to an extent even the quality of the stories submitted. A new improved hacker/startup community can be a serious contender for replacing HN (in its current state), just like Reddit is/was to Digg and…
I'm relatively new to HN ( I understand that in a competitive, fast paced and big money industry there will be massive egos, but I could sure do without some of the jerks
Isn't that true of every geek-oriented news site with comments? In every community that reaches a certain size people start complaining that everything was better in the early year(s). There's always a lot of cynicism because that's just geek humor (actually I think HN is far better in that regard than many other sites - I don't know any other major site where you can get so much useful and positive feedback). And on sites with lots of comments you will always find lots of negative comments. That's just the way it is.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I applied for lobste.rs, sending an 8 paragraph email about myself, the admin didn't even take the time to reply to me, which I find extremely rude, if I am too lowly for his application, then letting me know how to improve would really have been polite. As it is, because of how I was treat by them, I have an extreme aversion to this website. I don't see it as competition for HN, I was merely curious about the commun…
When did you send it? I don't know about the recipient of your email, but it's not uncommon for me to have a multi-week backlog of email. Long emails tend to get a long reply, so those take even longer.
I sent it when the site was released, day 1 or 2 I think, the first time it was posted on HN.
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#150Nice. Notice how it so neatly slices off exactly one demographic from here and transplants it over there, without anything that would distract them. It's focussed just on one topic: Software development stuff for Software Developers.
There are four main camps here at HN:
- "Software Entrepreneurs", building Big Important Startups or quaint little "lifestyle businesses" that let them drive their cute little "italian supercars" around their quaint little midwestern town.
- "Computer Programmers", talking about languages, deployment strategies, open source stuff and how to configure their dotfiles to automatically convert tabs to spaces.
- "Tech Gossip Afficianodos", excited about what Techcrunch has to say about who got funded, and taking sides in fights between giant corporations.
- And the guy who just wants to point out that pirating movies off the internet is technically just "copyright infringement" and therefore not bad at all (and really HBO's fault anyway.)
These guys grabbed just their team, and now they're free to talk shop without any of the myriad distractions they'd get trying to do it here.
It's a little selfish to note that I actually see this as a good thing for a slightly different reason: If Camp 2 leaves, that's more HackerNews for those of us in Camp 1, which is the reason I'm here. We'll still have to flag stuff from the other two distracting groups, but it just might make this place a little nicer as well. Everybody wins.