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This suggests an interesting way of looking at the problem, namely "How do we make the site less interesting for non-hackers?"
Perhaps require solving a hacker-related "captcha" for submitting stories or posting until your karma has passed a certain threshold. For example, fix a line of code or enter the order of complexity of an algorithm.
Salmon is disappearing.
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Re: Salmon is disappearing.
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Well, there's democracy and then there's mobocracy. Democracy says that this place is peopled with hackers and if the hacker citizens upvote a story then it is, ipso facto, of interest to hackers. Mobocracy says that demi-hackers trickle in and start upvoting stories and posting comments that attract quasi-hackers. The quasi-hackers then attract non-hackers and you eventually no longer have a narrow community. The st…
This suggests an interesting way of looking at the problem, namely "How do we make the site less interesting for non-hackers?"
Re: Salmon is disappearing.
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, there's democracy and then there's mobocracy. Democracy says that this place is peopled with hackers and if the hacker citizens upvote a story then it is, ipso facto, of interest to hackers. Mobocracy says that demi-hackers trickle in and start upvoting stories and posting comments that attract quasi-hackers. The quasi-hackers then attract non-hackers and you eventually no longer have a narrow community. The st…
This suggests an interesting way of looking at the problem, namely "How do we make the site less interesting for non-hackers?"