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If it matters than it isn't irrelevant. No one is forcing you to vote for it.

davidw 19y ago
The set of things that matter, in world terms, far more than what Paul Graham thinks of trolls, or startup school, or memcached is large enough that it could easily crowd out the 'hacker news' without breaking a sweat, as this page suggests: http://www.ft.com/world http://www.ft.com/world I don't see what the problem is with taking this kind of story elsewhere. It's not a bad story or uninteresting, just that first this one...then a Musharraf one, then another one about the US primaries, and on and on. All of them more important than the regular fare here. And after a while, the value of the site is diluted in terms of its original purpose.
- hollywoodcole 19y ago
  Come on David don't be so negative. Just because it might have happen on another site doesn't mean it will happen here. Like I said before, I can't vote the article up to the frontpage, takes more than one person.
  - pg 19y ago
    He's right to worry. I worry too. And in fact our abuse detection code is suspicious about this story, because so many of the first upvotes were from newly created accounts.
    - hollywoodcole 19y ago
      back to coding for you then!
  - davidw 19y ago
    Hey, don't take it personally, I would have made the same comments whoever posted the story, and you're right that you only submitted it, it also took a bunch of people to upvote it. No one here but pg can really force anyone to do anything, so I'm just asking, and trying to explain why. (BTW, even though I disagree with you, I upvoted you because a 0 or a -1 is more than enough to indicate disapproval).
    - hollywoodcole 19y ago
      I understand where you are coming from. not taking it personally or to offend you, just thought it was an article that should be mentioned.
  - kingnothing 19y ago
    HN has a different news focus than other sites, and we're trying to protect its identity by saying that certain topics, while important, should not be discussed here. In short, we're trying to prevent the reddit effect.

The set of things that matter, in world terms, far more than what Paul Graham thinks of trolls, or startup school, or memcached is large enough that it could easily crowd out the 'hacker news' without breaking a sweat, as this page suggests: http://www.ft.com/world http://www.ft.com/world I don't see what the problem is with taking this kind of story elsewhere. It's not a bad story or uninteresting, just that first this one...then a Musharraf one, then another one about the US primaries, and on and on. All of them more important than the regular fare here. And after a while, the value of the site is diluted in terms of its original purpose.

hollywoodcole 19y ago
Come on David don't be so negative. Just because it might have happen on another site doesn't mean it will happen here. Like I said before, I can't vote the article up to the frontpage, takes more than one person.
- pg 19y ago
  He's right to worry. I worry too. And in fact our abuse detection code is suspicious about this story, because so many of the first upvotes were from newly created accounts.
  - hollywoodcole 19y ago
    back to coding for you then!
- davidw 19y ago
  Hey, don't take it personally, I would have made the same comments whoever posted the story, and you're right that you only submitted it, it also took a bunch of people to upvote it. No one here but pg can really force anyone to do anything, so I'm just asking, and trying to explain why. (BTW, even though I disagree with you, I upvoted you because a 0 or a -1 is more than enough to indicate disapproval).
  - hollywoodcole 19y ago
    I understand where you are coming from. not taking it personally or to offend you, just thought it was an article that should be mentioned.
- kingnothing 19y ago
  HN has a different news focus than other sites, and we're trying to protect its identity by saying that certain topics, while important, should not be discussed here. In short, we're trying to prevent the reddit effect.