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Salmon is disappearing.

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Re: Salmon is disappearing.

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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.

Sweet! Then we'd get major practice in for our Google interview as well. Don't forget puzzles involving sparrows, rowboats, candles, and ropes for those of us who might be elsewhere-bound.

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?"

people in academic disciplines have known for years that the best way to to get joe public to leave you alone is to make your interests seem really boring.

Re: Salmon is disappearing.

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post #24
post #20

Earlier 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?"

This all assumes that non-hackers are to blame. I haven't seen any evidence that this is the case.
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