Why I don't find HN useful anymore • Hacker News Board

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Post by TomOfTTB » Mon, Aug 03, 2009, 4:39 PM UTC

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #10

This is pure whining. If you don't like the articles on HN 1. upvote articles you like 2. Submit more articles you like You have submitted just 3 stories to HN (excluding this) http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dag and frankly the story about warren buffet is not HN material and the fashion article is also not hard core HN material.So you want others to find articles you like and upvote them and not do the wor…

I doubt he'd have much luck elsewhere. By his own graphic he had no objection to 50% of the articles and honestly that's a pretty good return rate all-in-all. No community is ever going to exactly reflect any one person's likes and dislikes. Especially a community as large as HN.

Any site that can produce 15+ interesting articles a day in exchange for the roughly minute and a half it takes to skim the HN headlines is doing great in my book.

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Post by lucumo » Mon, Aug 03, 2009, 4:50 PM UTC

there wrote: post #9

Why I don't find HN useful anymore http://imgur.com/8yx0Z.png

Ignoring your opinion per se for a minute, I feel you could have chosen a less snide way of expressing it.

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Post by rythie » Mon, Aug 03, 2009, 4:51 PM UTC

You seem to think the only value in HN is providing you links to click on. What about giving you a chance to discuss the issues of the day with fellow entrepreneurs?

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Post by noodle » Mon, Aug 03, 2009, 4:53 PM UTC

an ironic complaint when you inspect the submitter's own submissions, which is only 25% HN-topical.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dag

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Post by dag » Mon, Aug 03, 2009, 4:55 PM UTC

TomOfTTB wrote: post #31

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #10

This is pure whining. If you don't like the articles on HN 1. upvote articles you like 2. Submit more articles you like You have submitted just 3 stories to HN (excluding this) http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dag and frankly the story about warren buffet is not HN material and the fashion article is also not hard core HN material.So you want others to find articles you like and upvote them and not do the wor…

I doubt he'd have much luck elsewhere. By his own graphic he had no objection to 50% of the articles and honestly that's a pretty good return rate all-in-all. No community is ever going to exactly reflect any one person's likes and dislikes. Especially a community as large as HN. Any site that can produce 15+ interesting articles a day in exchange for the roughly minute and a half it takes to skim the HN headlines is…

It's not that I like 50% and don't like 50%, rather I think that one or two years ago 50% of these would never have been submitted to HN.

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Post by dag » Mon, Aug 03, 2009, 4:58 PM UTC

there wrote: post #9

Why I don't find HN useful anymore http://imgur.com/8yx0Z.png

Note that most of the links you clicked on were not ones that I marked.

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Post by Quarrelsome » Mon, Aug 03, 2009, 4:59 PM UTC

dag wrote: post #11

sachinag wrote: post #6

Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple's BOD is Politics how? Take your smug sense of superiority, turn that sumbitch sideways, and stick it up your candy ass.

Your comment is extremely disrespectful, and I believe erroneous. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics , "There is no academic consensus on the exact definition of "Politics" and what counts as political and what does not. Max Weber defined politics as the struggle for power." I found that definition applicable.

As the awesome skunk anansie song goes:

Yes it's f*cking political! Everything's POLITICAL!!!!!!

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Post by biohacker42 » Mon, Aug 03, 2009, 5:00 PM UTC

there wrote: post #9

Why I don't find HN useful anymore http://imgur.com/8yx0Z.png

I never ceases to fascinate me how taboo meta discussions of HN are. We tolerate all kinds of topics, but this one almost everyone viscerally hates. It is as if everyone takes it as a personal insult on their tastes. Odd.

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Post by idlewords » Mon, Aug 03, 2009, 5:00 PM UTC

This seems to be inevitable as the number of users grows. See: daypop, del.icio.us/popular, reddit. All of these were wonderful when they were small, and then converged onto a mix of top 10 lists / funny photos / outrage of the day links as they got big. I predict if HN keeps growing, it will experience the same fate.

Re: Why I don't find HN useful anymore

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Post by edw519 » Mon, Aug 03, 2009, 5:08 PM UTC

From OP's profile:

  user: dag 
  created: 593 days ago 
  karma: 305 
  about:

Then drilling down the "submissions" link:

  1.  Why I don't find HN useful anymore (imgur.com)  
   76 points by dag 1 hour ago | 37 comments 
  2.  Hack Your Own CNC Machine (buildyourcnc.com)  
   27 points by dag 77 days ago | 3 comments 
  3.  Fashion for Geeks: Why bother? (urbanmonarch.com)  
   27 points by dag 508 days ago | 26 comments 
  4.  The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville (classic Warren Buffett article) (scribd.com)  
 3 points by dag 550 days ago | 2 comments

So you've been here for 593 days and have only made 4 submissions. Yet you complain about the submissions of others. Want a more useful hn? Stop complaining and start contributing.