Pretty smart, I think this effectively solves the problem. Now, you get the HN readership without the risk of attracting people who just want to knee jerk vote and promote their pet causes.
I also volunteer for moderating.
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#62Pretty smart, I think this effectively solves the problem. Now, you get the HN readership without the risk of attracting people who just want to knee jerk vote and promote their pet causes. I also volunteer for moderating.
Would it work to make NHN a superset of HN? Then people going to NHN can still participate in HN easily. Otherwise, you might create a migration.
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#63I have a biz/financial news site that used to be for my personal use but everyone's welcome to sign up and use it. It's running Arc + HN forum soft. It's still heavily beta as I use it as a testing ground for some AI/NLP stuff that I'm writing in Arc. I dig out a ton of great links but only a fraction are god for HN, hence a new site for biz & finance. In my past life I used to work in finance so I'm still attached t…
I am patiently waiting for a network to grow here. So far it's mainly nickb and I've had a post. I don't think there is an equivalent to this, but the name might be a turn off for some. There are many great minds not totally interested in turning into a mogul. They might see themselves as already being moguls and thus think this site is a place for n00bs.
Agreed. It's a shitty name but I had the domain for a while and it was supposed to be used for something else. When I started looking for a domain to bring the site up, I couldn't find anything so I ended up using this. Oh well.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
done... http://www.thehackerforum.com/
I actually wish someone would create an OS as nice and user friendly as OSX, with the market share of Microsoft, and completely open source. Also, that I had a pony.
done: http://www.ubuntu.com/ (ok not really)
and done: http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/
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#65Great! Now when someone feels that a submission here is not Hacker News, they can submit it to nonhackernews and reply to the submission here with the link.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am patiently waiting for a network to grow here. So far it's mainly nickb and I've had a post. I don't think there is an equivalent to this, but the name might be a turn off for some. There are many great minds not totally interested in turning into a mogul. They might see themselves as already being moguls and thus think this site is a place for n00bs.
Agreed. It's a shitty name but I had the domain for a while and it was supposed to be used for something else. When I started looking for a domain to bring the site up, I couldn't find anything so I ended up using this. Oh well.
I think bear.com should be free soon. Maybe lehman.com.
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#67Checking it out.. But why are the contents of the welcome post on the front page itself? Ps. I can be a moderator if you still need another one. Id: Anant
The welcome post only has its title on the front page now. Before we didn't have an option for descriptions to not show up on the list pages.