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Goodbye, Hacker News. I'm going back to Reddit.

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Re: Goodbye, Hacker News. I'm going back to Reddit.

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Post by damien »

nostrademons wrote: post #5

Thing is, Reddit really sucks now. I was just visiting it today and was amazed by the number of ignoranuses (ignoranus = someone who is both stupid and an asshole) on it. I wonder if this is the eventual fate of all online communities. I've been through at least half a dozen now, and I've yet to see one survive as something other than trite, meaningless bullshit. The curious thing is - in at least one case (HP fandom…

I still visit proggit regularly. Actually, that's how I found out about the change since I had stopped visiting "Startup News" for the same reasons pg changed it.

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#22

Post by budu3 »

palish wrote: post #3

Wait, what? Dude, a story that's submitted should be titled the same regardless of who submits the story. The only variance in titles should be mere semantics. Any extra information in the title only adds bias or spelling/grammar mistakes. Therefore, editing a title to its correct form is just fine. Relax. But if you can't relax, goodbye. If this thread title is any indication, you produce great Reddit/Digg titles. I…

You make a good point. Do we really own the titles? If we don't own it, then who does? The hacker news community, the editors? I guess if we don't then we need to change our mindsets. Is that why we can't delete the submissions we make?

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#24

Post by Keios »

jsnx wrote: post #15

I don't see any reason to choose between ynews and reddit. The level of technical dialogue here is better, no question -- and for awesome lolcats and social interest anecdotes, like http://politics.reddit.com/goto?id=2g6mu , there's reddit.

Ah! technical dialogue! Now where did you see that here? ;P

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#25

Post by mynameishere »

The number of typical comments for a post determine what kind of people want to/are willing to comment:

0-10 comments: People who want to talk about the post per se

11-50 comments: People who want to have a conversation.

51- comments: People who want to join a mob.

Obviously, ynews is moving from the first to the second, and that changes the types of comments/people commenting/overall community.

Re: Goodbye, Hacker News. I'm going back to Reddit.

#26

Post by dfranke »

budu3 wrote: post #22
palish wrote: post #3

Wait, what? Dude, a story that's submitted should be titled the same regardless of who submits the story. The only variance in titles should be mere semantics. Any extra information in the title only adds bias or spelling/grammar mistakes. Therefore, editing a title to its correct form is just fine. Relax. But if you can't relax, goodbye. If this thread title is any indication, you produce great Reddit/Digg titles. I…

You make a good point. Do we really own the titles? If we don't own it, then who does? The hacker news community, the editors? I guess if we don't then we need to change our mindsets. Is that why we can't delete the submissions we make?

Wha? You can delete your own submissions. Just yesterday I submitted the RMS earthquake story before nickb did, but then deleted it after reading the Reddit comments on the same story and seeing that it was inaccurate.

Re: Goodbye, Hacker News. I'm going back to Reddit.

#27

Post by nostrademons »

ashu wrote: post #12
nostrademons wrote: post #5

Thing is, Reddit really sucks now. I was just visiting it today and was amazed by the number of ignoranuses (ignoranus = someone who is both stupid and an asshole) on it. I wonder if this is the eventual fate of all online communities. I've been through at least half a dozen now, and I've yet to see one survive as something other than trite, meaningless bullshit. The curious thing is - in at least one case (HP fandom…

love the newly coined word and its etymology :)

It's not actually mine. I read it in some newspaper article about neologisms, and it appears in several places on the web (including 17 urbandictionary references).

Re: Goodbye, Hacker News. I'm going back to Reddit.

#28

Post by rms »

dfranke wrote: post #26
budu3 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You make a good point. Do we really own the titles? If we don't own it, then who does? The hacker news community, the editors? I guess if we don't then we need to change our mindsets. Is that why we can't delete the submissions we make?

Wha? You can delete your own submissions. Just yesterday I submitted the RMS earthquake story before nickb did, but then deleted it after reading the Reddit comments on the same story and seeing that it was inaccurate.

You can only delete/edit them for one hour after submission.

Re: Goodbye, Hacker News. I'm going back to Reddit.

#30

Post by ivankirigin »

nostrademons wrote: post #27
ashu wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

love the newly coined word and its etymology :)

It's not actually mine. I read it in some newspaper article about neologisms, and it appears in several places on the web (including 17 urbandictionary references).

email Safire stat. Gotta get him on the case.
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