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I hate replying with just one link, but I have to take out my utterly scornful disgust out about this one in public: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149789

• pg 19y ago
  Yeah, that one was bad. Second worst on the frontpage, based on how it would look to vote-weighting if it were turned on. The worst story on the frontpage by that standard right now is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149752 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149752 The third worst, ironically, is the one complaining about the problem: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149887 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149887
  • davidw 19y ago
    How about setting up a dedicated place for the discussion of these things, so that they need never cross the front page again, and we can discuss them all we want without feeling bad about it? Feature requests might work, maybe not. In any case, it would also be necessary to fairly ruthlessly kill navel-gazing articles on the front page, or at least move them to navelgazing.news.yc.com...
    • BrandonM 19y ago
      metahackernews.com looks to be available.
  • apathy 19y ago
    The third worst, ironically, is the one complaining about the problem Why is that ironic? No solutions are presented. No value is generated. An individual starting a company or hacking on a problem does not grow as a result of having read the story. It is self-referential, self-aggrandizing, and as you point out, among the worst entries in the derby. It sounds as if vote-weighting has a good deal of merit, based solely on the three pieces of evidence presented.