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What are you talking about?

atomi 10y ago
You haven't noticed a serious decline in the quality of comments and posts? This site used to be much more startup and programmer focused. Now we have posts about the penis size of statues. :/ edit: What would you know about that? You joined less than a year ago.
- silencio 10y ago
  From the guidelines: > anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity I'm not sure what is so wrong with this post. It's certainly more interesting than half the front page right now in my opinion. (To save you the pointless trouble, my account is 3016 days old.)
  - atomi 10y ago
    Well yeah, if you say your intellectual curiosity is fulfilled with discussions about why male genitalia is so small on statues then I'll just take your word for it. But considering the graveyard of comments on this post, I'll have to just say I could do without it. Enjoy your penis posts.
- lotharbot 10y ago
  > "What would you know about that? You joined less than a year ago." I joined a little more than 200 days before you, and my wife was here a year before me. She was here just at the end of the "mostly startup and programmer focused" era (she got to experience Erlang Day -- FWIW, here's a thread from 8 weeks after you joined that references both Erlang Day and too many stories about non-hacker topics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919897 ). "This isn't about programming WTF" has been a complaint on HN for a long, long time. To the degree that the HN guidelines explicitly say that topics don't have to be about programming and startups, they just have to be "intellectually gratifying". Cultural perceptions of sexuality and gender as expressed in art are an intellectual topic (though they do tend to attract boring, uninsightful, crude commentary, as seen in the wall of grayed-out comments at the bottom of the page.)
- tracker1 10y ago
  I don't think you are correct, there is a very broad variety of interesting topics that come across HN daily... I find it interesting the stories around hardware hacking in the 60-80's that come up at times... Others include RF/Radio... There's also a touch of art and politics. Just because you may not find everything interesting doesn't mean a significant portion of the members of this site won't. I started out doing art work, I shifted to programming by chance because I had a talent for it, and it paid well. I enjoy it, but it's never been my first choice of careers.
  - atomi 10y ago
    Yeah. I get it. But a lot of us are moving to lobste.rs. You can stay here and enjoy your interesting HN posts. I'm done.
    - tracker1 10y ago
      care to shoot me an invite?
    - lotharbot 10y ago
      Your most recent page of comments includes this thread, a thread about illegal immigration, and one about suicide rate. You've also commented about Earl Grey tea and HBO in the past -- back in the years when HN was supposedly more about technology. You've never submitted a story, tech or otherwise. Yet you've suddenly become a startups-and-code purist? FWIW I like lobste.rs -- but there aren't "a lot of us" moving; the front page has one article with 60 comments, one with 28, one with 13, and the rest are in the single digits. The highest upvote total is 37. (Which you may view as a good thing, if you want a more focused / restricted site than HN.)
      - atomi 10y ago
        Some people, whom I have a great deal of respect for, have moved to lobste.rs And I do view the more focused / restricted aspect as a good thing. You've highlighted how some of my more recent posts on HN make it clear how far I've strayed from code / startups. So I'm making an effort not to get sucked into the frivolity. Thanks.
- sudojudo 10y ago
  >You joined less than a year ago. Cool it with that. Some of us regularly make fresh accounts, for various reasons, like privacy. HN doesn't heavily revolve around points (karma/upvotes/whatever) and a who's-who of posters, which is refreshing. Ironically, your statement is pushing toward that type of system, which would bring in more of the very users you're complaining about. The top comments are fine, so continue to let the little arrows on the left do the judging. This is a story about penis size, even the most serious commenter will be tempted to wise crack.
- icebraining 10y ago
  We always had popular non-tech/startup submissions, eg.: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years - 1138 points - 4 years ago - 173 comments Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies - 664 points - 5 years ago - 256 comments How Doctors Die - 653 points - 4 years ago - 178 comments A Dust Over India - 621 points - 4 years ago - 313 comments The frequent fliers who flew too much 543 points - 4 years ago - 223 comments
- YeGoblynQueenne 10y ago
  Well, everyone pivots, sooner or later.
- benbenolson 10y ago
  The comments on this post are quite fine, and this article is interesting. In addition, there are plenty (I'd say 95%+) of startup/code posts. You have nothing to complain about. What's wrong with the fact that my account is only 293 days old?
  - atomi 10y ago
    You wouldn't have noticed the change if you recently joined.

atomi 10y ago

You haven't noticed a serious decline in the quality of comments and posts? This site used to be much more startup and programmer focused. Now we have posts about the penis size of statues. :/ edit: What would you know about that? You joined less than a year ago.

silencio 10y ago
From the guidelines: > anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity I'm not sure what is so wrong with this post. It's certainly more interesting than half the front page right now in my opinion. (To save you the pointless trouble, my account is 3016 days old.)
- atomi 10y ago
  Well yeah, if you say your intellectual curiosity is fulfilled with discussions about why male genitalia is so small on statues then I'll just take your word for it. But considering the graveyard of comments on this post, I'll have to just say I could do without it. Enjoy your penis posts.
lotharbot 10y ago
> "What would you know about that? You joined less than a year ago." I joined a little more than 200 days before you, and my wife was here a year before me. She was here just at the end of the "mostly startup and programmer focused" era (she got to experience Erlang Day -- FWIW, here's a thread from 8 weeks after you joined that references both Erlang Day and too many stories about non-hacker topics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919897 ). "This isn't about programming WTF" has been a complaint on HN for a long, long time. To the degree that the HN guidelines explicitly say that topics don't have to be about programming and startups, they just have to be "intellectually gratifying". Cultural perceptions of sexuality and gender as expressed in art are an intellectual topic (though they do tend to attract boring, uninsightful, crude commentary, as seen in the wall of grayed-out comments at the bottom of the page.)
tracker1 10y ago
I don't think you are correct, there is a very broad variety of interesting topics that come across HN daily... I find it interesting the stories around hardware hacking in the 60-80's that come up at times... Others include RF/Radio... There's also a touch of art and politics. Just because you may not find everything interesting doesn't mean a significant portion of the members of this site won't. I started out doing art work, I shifted to programming by chance because I had a talent for it, and it paid well. I enjoy it, but it's never been my first choice of careers.
- atomi 10y ago
  Yeah. I get it. But a lot of us are moving to lobste.rs. You can stay here and enjoy your interesting HN posts. I'm done.
  - tracker1 10y ago
    care to shoot me an invite?
  - lotharbot 10y ago
    Your most recent page of comments includes this thread, a thread about illegal immigration, and one about suicide rate. You've also commented about Earl Grey tea and HBO in the past -- back in the years when HN was supposedly more about technology. You've never submitted a story, tech or otherwise. Yet you've suddenly become a startups-and-code purist? FWIW I like lobste.rs -- but there aren't "a lot of us" moving; the front page has one article with 60 comments, one with 28, one with 13, and the rest are in the single digits. The highest upvote total is 37. (Which you may view as a good thing, if you want a more focused / restricted site than HN.)
    - atomi 10y ago
      Some people, whom I have a great deal of respect for, have moved to lobste.rs And I do view the more focused / restricted aspect as a good thing. You've highlighted how some of my more recent posts on HN make it clear how far I've strayed from code / startups. So I'm making an effort not to get sucked into the frivolity. Thanks.
sudojudo 10y ago
>You joined less than a year ago. Cool it with that. Some of us regularly make fresh accounts, for various reasons, like privacy. HN doesn't heavily revolve around points (karma/upvotes/whatever) and a who's-who of posters, which is refreshing. Ironically, your statement is pushing toward that type of system, which would bring in more of the very users you're complaining about. The top comments are fine, so continue to let the little arrows on the left do the judging. This is a story about penis size, even the most serious commenter will be tempted to wise crack.
icebraining 10y ago
We always had popular non-tech/startup submissions, eg.: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years - 1138 points - 4 years ago - 173 comments Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies - 664 points - 5 years ago - 256 comments How Doctors Die - 653 points - 4 years ago - 178 comments A Dust Over India - 621 points - 4 years ago - 313 comments The frequent fliers who flew too much 543 points - 4 years ago - 223 comments
YeGoblynQueenne 10y ago
Well, everyone pivots, sooner or later.
benbenolson 10y ago
The comments on this post are quite fine, and this article is interesting. In addition, there are plenty (I'd say 95%+) of startup/code posts. You have nothing to complain about. What's wrong with the fact that my account is only 293 days old?
- atomi 10y ago
  You wouldn't have noticed the change if you recently joined.