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the hacker news value is in the community, not the submissions.
by pclark 17y ago
the hacker news value is in the community, not the submissions.
- wlievens 17y agoCould you clarify that? If submissions stop (or at leas the good ones do), there's not much community left, is there?
- detst 17y agoThere may not be much left as it is now but I can say without question that I would rather find a way to maintain the community without the submissions than to have submissions without community (or a community of lower quality).
- theycallmemorty 17y agoBut the community can change as the submissions change to appeal to a broader base.
- drtse4 17y agoAgree, usually i'm more interested in the comments that follow than the original submission and sometimes even an uninteresting (at least for me) link leads to a great discussion. And regarding the community turning into something different or getting polluted by off-topic submissions, the ones who can down-vote shouldn't prevent this skimming off this kind of link?
- drtse4 17y agoI stand corrected, just read in the FAQ that links cannot be down-voted. Interesting.
- Xichekolas 17y agoThey can be flagged (and are, at least by me), which is better, because then they get killed.