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You need to expect that massive stories like this one make the front page. The community wants to discuss them. Even if you successfully bury this one, another
by hendersoon 9y ago
You need to expect that massive stories like this one make the front page. The community wants to discuss them. Even if you successfully bury this one, another will come shortly. It's inevitable and unavoidable.
- dang 9y ago> The community wants to discuss them Some want to discuss them, but that's not necessarily "the community". There's robust disagreement, of course, about what belongs here, but I think the HN community has a pretty healthy sense of the site's core values: intellectual curiosity and civil, substantive discussion. I think that's why most people come here. If anything makes HN different, that's it, and we'd be fools to squander it. The site can't be dedicated both to that and also to the "intensely but shallowly interesting" news of the moment, to use pg's old phrase. Without checks and balances, the latter would soon burn up the former. The users flagging these stories seem to me to be doing so because they understand that.