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

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Post by Leon » Mon, Aug 20, 2007, 3:12 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #66

dfranke wrote: post #65

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Is the increased traffic more due to new users, or to existing users becoming more active?

More users.

I was very much hoping for the response to be a more active user base. At least then the community would still be some-what close to providing the wanted dialogue, as most users have been here for a few months already and there is some sort of community agreement on what constitutes a 'good' post. With a greater influx of new users the posting quality will probably go down, if not for the time it takes to grow accustomed to the social agreements on communication on the site. During this time, will we lose valued, long term members of the community? What is a decent solution to the problem of online community degrade?

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

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Post by oditogre » Mon, Aug 20, 2007, 3:48 PM UTC

andyn wrote: post #70

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…

Most content on Reddit seems to be generated by about 5 people who either post as much as they can from whatever feeds they're subscribed to or whatever pulls people's strings. At the moment this is usually stories about how the cops are utterly corrupt and how Fox news totally sucks. Why? It's not like they discuss the story or you actually get prizes for a high karma? Nowadays I prefer finding a page edited by some…

You can. Go to your preferences, click on 'friends', and add the nicknames of all the posters you like. Then go to friends.reddit.com, and you'll only see submissions from those people. This feature came out about a half a year ago, IIRC.

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

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Post by rms » Mon, Aug 20, 2007, 8:29 PM UTC

Leon wrote: post #71

pg wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More users.

I was very much hoping for the response to be a more active user base. At least then the community would still be some-what close to providing the wanted dialogue, as most users have been here for a few months already and there is some sort of community agreement on what constitutes a 'good' post. With a greater influx of new users the posting quality will probably go down, if not for the time it takes to grow accust…

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40479

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

#74

Post by sbraford » Mon, Aug 20, 2007, 11:09 PM UTC

jsnx wrote: post #9

motoko wrote: post #8

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What's the expression? The politics are so bad because the stakes are so low?

A bikeshed (from a discussion on the FreeBSD mailing list -- see http://www.bikeshed.com/ ).

YES - this is my favorite new dev meme. So incredibly true it's painful.