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Why is this listed on Hacker News. It does not appear to be related to technology or startups. My issue with this article is: This article attempts to paint t

by monksy 11y ago

Why is this listed on Hacker News. It does not appear to be related to technology or startups. My issue with this article is: This article attempts to paint the individual web cam-ers as people that are hurt. They are people who are attempting to engage in a business that is extremely cut-throat, and that is on low margins. (Also, happens to be "socially unacceptable" in many cultures.. that's another story, but it's used to abuse the reader) Additionally these people cut out larger businesses whom are highly regulated for a few more dollars. I wish that the article would have reported on the people who did this, some of the problems they faced, and left it at that. I'm tried of seeing stories that paints these people as "we need to fix this ill".

tzs 11y ago
> Why is this listed on Hacker News. It does not appear to be related to technology or startups. HN is not exclusively about technology or startups. From the Guidelines: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. The fact that you went on to read the article, and evidently put some thought into analyzing its content, indicates that it at least aroused your intellectual curiosity. Assuming you are a "good hacker", that would be a point of evidence toward the article being on-topic. Note that for many things, they arguably fall under both on-topic and off-topic based on the guidelines, so could probably go either way.
- monksy 11y ago
  The thing is that it didn't raise an intellectual curiosity. (The article was meant to invoke outrage/emotion)

by monksy 11y ago

tzs 11y ago

> Why is this listed on Hacker News. It does not appear to be related to technology or startups. HN is not exclusively about technology or startups. From the Guidelines: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. The fact that you went on to read the article, and evidently put some thought into analyzing its content, indicates that it at least aroused your intellectual curiosity. Assuming you are a "good hacker", that would be a point of evidence toward the article being on-topic. Note that for many things, they arguably fall under both on-topic and off-topic based on the guidelines, so could probably go either way.

monksy 11y ago
The thing is that it didn't raise an intellectual curiosity. (The article was meant to invoke outrage/emotion)