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Re: Lobsters

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Post by milkmiruku »

roryokane wrote: post #113
rauljara wrote: post #41

Explanation 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.

If per chance anyone has a free invite, it would be greatly appreciated!

Re: Lobsters

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Post by jschuur »

So it's like a country club for hackers? No explanation of what it is (scope/core philosophy) other than the links. No sign-up, or even an indication of how to join or why there isn't a general sign-up form.

Somewhat off putting, elitist first impression.

Re: Lobsters

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Post by jschuur »

jschuur wrote: post #172

So it's like a country club for hackers? No explanation of what it is (scope/core philosophy) other than the links. No sign-up, or even an indication of how to join or why there isn't a general sign-up form. Somewhat off putting, elitist first impression.

OK, to be fair, it does look like there's a normal sign-up/application feature that was just quickly disabled/commented out:

https://lobste.rs/s/senl3p/lobsters_discussion_on_hacker_new...

Re: Lobsters

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Post by sandGorgon »

roryokane wrote: post #113
rauljara wrote: post #41

Explanation 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.

could I have an invite as well ? My email is in my profile.

Re: Lobsters

#176

Post by andybak »

It's frankly embarrassing to have to ask this in public but if anyone would care to invite me, it looks like my kind of place.

Re: Lobsters

#177

Post by zizee »

zizee wrote: post #99
tptacek wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Graham allows the dumbest people on the Internet to come onto this site to berate startups he all but begged people to create, but hellbanned a guy who pooped out a better version of HN in his spare time, for nothing. For fuck's sake.

I honestly can't tell if you are agreeing with what the parent wrote or disagreeing. I'm leaning toward disagreement.

Not sure what the down vote was for, it was a genuine question. The parents comment IS ambiguous and I would be interested in a clarification.

Sometimes it is difficult to pickup on sarcasm in the written word. This post is not being sarcastic. Neither was my one above.

Re: Lobsters

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Post by mjw »

jasonkester wrote: post #150

Nice. 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 s…

Personally I thought the demographic here was supposed to be 'hackers'. I kinda wish the other various demographics would get a room:

- Silicon valley gossip scenesters - The "I read an Ayn Rand novel, would you like me to turn this into a debate about why Government Is Always Bad and Tax is Theft?" crowd - The "I know what would improve my productivity! spending all morning reading mediocre blog posts about productivity!" crowd - The business self-help book reading group.

Each to their own I guess :)

Re: Lobsters

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Post by jschuur »

akashshah wrote: post #8

According to https://jcs.org/projects/ "Lobsters (2012 - present) - A link aggregation site that I created after I was banned from Hacker News." EDIT - also found https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters which explains some features

That about article should be linked from the top nav on the site. Or at least in a footer. It would go a long way to explaining the origins and intentions of the site.

Re: Lobsters

#180

Post by batgaijin »

sharkweek wrote: post #116
nreece wrote: post #91

Earlier 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

Well a real problem is the fact that it takes no effort to by cynical. It doesn't take intelligence or facts to be cynical, only doubt under the cover of pragmatism.
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