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I agree wholeheartedly. I come here for information, and noise like this stuff dilutes HN's value just as surely as any non-hacker content like political articl

by matrix 16y ago

I agree wholeheartedly. I come here for information, and noise like this stuff dilutes HN's value just as surely as any non-hacker content like political articles, "8 Beautiful Pictures of Slugs", or "VB 101". PG: any chance we could have a temporary (or permanent) ban on John Gruber posts?

plinkplonk 16y ago
"PG: any chance we could have a temporary (or permanent) ban on John Gruber posts?" +1. Banning Apple speculation/interpretation/fanboi/defense posts in general would be great.
WiseWeasel 16y ago
This is why stories need a down-vote mechanism.
dreyfiz 16y ago
Sometimes I think nerds aren't very intelligent at all. They're just technology fetishists with a large vocabulary who've learned to ape some of intelligent people's behavior. +1 for banning DF links, because the comments here when a link to DF is posted are really depressingly stupid, and they make me suspicious of the quality of thinking behind everything else that's said on HN. Little else makes the fundamental defectiveness of the nerd mentality as clear as the reactions to John Gruber's writing. This is like being in a room full of Rob Malda. The last time it was this obvious to me how defective nerd thinking is was Malda's reaction to the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
- petercooper 16y ago
  The last time it was this obvious to me how defective nerd thinking is was Malda's reaction to the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." To be fair, that wasn't dissimilar to the response of a lot of people here regarding the iPad - quite a few of whom have gone on to say they were "wrong" after actually using one. The first iPod really did suck. Its sales were slow for ages and it didn't take off seriously until the color ones hit.
petercooper 16y ago
-1 for banning anything. Hacker News is democratic. Things that get voted up do well. Things that are not voted up don't make the front page. By banning stuff, you'd be censoring the people on HN who think that certain sites and links are worth reading. You're as much saying that you don't like other HN readers' opinions than the links they post. Considering this story is at 147 votes and counting, there are quite a few people who clearly thought it was worth checking out. Stop trying to silence their opinions.

by matrix 16y ago

plinkplonk 16y ago

"PG: any chance we could have a temporary (or permanent) ban on John Gruber posts?" +1. Banning Apple speculation/interpretation/fanboi/defense posts in general would be great.

WiseWeasel 16y ago

This is why stories need a down-vote mechanism.

dreyfiz 16y ago

Sometimes I think nerds aren't very intelligent at all. They're just technology fetishists with a large vocabulary who've learned to ape some of intelligent people's behavior. +1 for banning DF links, because the comments here when a link to DF is posted are really depressingly stupid, and they make me suspicious of the quality of thinking behind everything else that's said on HN. Little else makes the fundamental defectiveness of the nerd mentality as clear as the reactions to John Gruber's writing. This is like being in a room full of Rob Malda. The last time it was this obvious to me how defective nerd thinking is was Malda's reaction to the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

petercooper 16y ago
The last time it was this obvious to me how defective nerd thinking is was Malda's reaction to the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." To be fair, that wasn't dissimilar to the response of a lot of people here regarding the iPad - quite a few of whom have gone on to say they were "wrong" after actually using one. The first iPod really did suck. Its sales were slow for ages and it didn't take off seriously until the color ones hit.

petercooper 16y ago

-1 for banning anything. Hacker News is democratic. Things that get voted up do well. Things that are not voted up don't make the front page. By banning stuff, you'd be censoring the people on HN who think that certain sites and links are worth reading. You're as much saying that you don't like other HN readers' opinions than the links they post. Considering this story is at 147 votes and counting, there are quite a few people who clearly thought it was worth checking out. Stop trying to silence their opinions.