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I am glad you guys are finding my article discussion worthy, but why aren't you commenting on Read/WriteWeb? This way it is much easier for me and other readers

by iskold 19y ago

I am glad you guys are finding my article discussion worthy, but why aren't you commenting on Read/WriteWeb? This way it is much easier for me and other readers to respond. the whole point of blogs is to discuss things around content not in remote seclude chats like this one. And regarding me being wrong about Free - not all as simple as a lot of you think here.

cstejerean 19y ago
You might want to tell your visitors about your post having been picked up by HN and that they can find additional comments here. To comment on the article on readwriteweb I need to a) scroll all they way to the bottom, b) need to create an account or type other boring details like my name and email address c) potentially wait for approval (it's not exactly clear if I need to wait for approval, which fields are required, etc) d) have another site to check to see replies to my comments, e) discuss an article in a boring, non-hierarchical comment structure (how do I see who is replying to me, how do I reply to someone else?) f) miss out on the interesting/insightful replies and comments of my peers on HN (specifically in reply to one of my comments) You certainly might not like having to come here to check for comments to your post, but understand there are no incentives for HN users to post their comments somewhere else. Hopefully you find the discussion thread here interesting and worthy of your time and attention.
- davidw 19y ago
  Yeah, it's 'free' to comment here, but there is a 'cost' associated with using that site, as cstejerean nicely explains:-)
  - agentbleu 19y ago
    hehe
- iskold 19y ago
  a) Scrolling to the bottom means you read it. Or do you comment without reading? b) c) No account is needed and no approval is needed I see why you'd rather comment here - it is more interactive and individual centric. That make sense. Alex
  - bayareaguy 19y ago
    Scrolling to the bottom means you read it. Or do you comment without reading? No, scrolling to the bottom means scrolling to the bottom. If I scroll so that the last word of your content is at the very bottom of my browser screen, my scrollbar shows that I'm only about 15% into the entire content of the page. The following 85% is taken up by clutter and the comments of other readers which are poorer in organization and in content. Furthermore since ReadWriteWeb has no karma scheme, there is no good way to provide feedback to other commenters. ReadWriteWeb's layout also sucks. On my laptop the silly ads and tag box to the right consume 40% of the window's horizontal area. That area is completely blank for 90% of the page (everything after I get to the section titled "Monopolistic Markets: The Tale of the Unfunded Startup"). If I try to correct for this by using my browsers zoom control, all that happens is I get smaller text and even more whitespace to the left and right of the content. YC Hacker news on the other hand handles this exactly right. No account is needed and no approval is needed I can distinctly recall otherwise when replying to something else on ReadWriteWeb in the past. Is that something you configure or did they change their policy recently?
huherto 19y ago
Because this is the place where we like to hang out. There are many smart people around and the quality of the discussion is very good. Plus we don't want to register in every blog on earth.
brlewis 19y ago
Some of us like discussing articles within the bounds of a familiar community. Do you really think Flickr won't survive unless they change their freemium model?

by iskold 19y ago

cstejerean 19y ago

You might want to tell your visitors about your post having been picked up by HN and that they can find additional comments here. To comment on the article on readwriteweb I need to a) scroll all they way to the bottom, b) need to create an account or type other boring details like my name and email address c) potentially wait for approval (it's not exactly clear if I need to wait for approval, which fields are required, etc) d) have another site to check to see replies to my comments, e) discuss an article in a boring, non-hierarchical comment structure (how do I see who is replying to me, how do I reply to someone else?) f) miss out on the interesting/insightful replies and comments of my peers on HN (specifically in reply to one of my comments) You certainly might not like having to come here to check for comments to your post, but understand there are no incentives for HN users to post their comments somewhere else. Hopefully you find the discussion thread here interesting and worthy of your time and attention.

davidw 19y ago
Yeah, it's 'free' to comment here, but there is a 'cost' associated with using that site, as cstejerean nicely explains:-)
- agentbleu 19y ago
  hehe
iskold 19y ago
a) Scrolling to the bottom means you read it. Or do you comment without reading? b) c) No account is needed and no approval is needed I see why you'd rather comment here - it is more interactive and individual centric. That make sense. Alex
- bayareaguy 19y ago
  Scrolling to the bottom means you read it. Or do you comment without reading? No, scrolling to the bottom means scrolling to the bottom. If I scroll so that the last word of your content is at the very bottom of my browser screen, my scrollbar shows that I'm only about 15% into the entire content of the page. The following 85% is taken up by clutter and the comments of other readers which are poorer in organization and in content. Furthermore since ReadWriteWeb has no karma scheme, there is no good way to provide feedback to other commenters. ReadWriteWeb's layout also sucks. On my laptop the silly ads and tag box to the right consume 40% of the window's horizontal area. That area is completely blank for 90% of the page (everything after I get to the section titled "Monopolistic Markets: The Tale of the Unfunded Startup"). If I try to correct for this by using my browsers zoom control, all that happens is I get smaller text and even more whitespace to the left and right of the content. YC Hacker news on the other hand handles this exactly right. No account is needed and no approval is needed I can distinctly recall otherwise when replying to something else on ReadWriteWeb in the past. Is that something you configure or did they change their policy recently?

huherto 19y ago

Because this is the place where we like to hang out. There are many smart people around and the quality of the discussion is very good. Plus we don't want to register in every blog on earth.

brlewis 19y ago

Some of us like discussing articles within the bounds of a familiar community. Do you really think Flickr won't survive unless they change their freemium model?