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Weekly Hacker: We're accepting nominations

25 points by cj 16y ago

mahmud 16y ago
Vanity :-)
thaumaturgy 16y ago
> Despite HN's extraordinary growth in popularity, we've refused to step down to the quality level of Digg and Reddit. Please do not say things like this. 1. It uses these other services as a yardstick by which you measure yourself, thereby placing more importance upon them than upon you; 2. Negative comparisons of competing services is one of the early signs of a corruption in your service -- e.g., Reddit's perceived deterioration was pre-empted by a significant number of its users constantly comparing themselves to Digg's users; 3. Your standards for excellence should be internal, not external. So, instead of saying, "I want to be better than X", you would say, "I want to be the best possible Y." Thanks.
- cj 16y ago
  Agreed. Just changed it.
  - thaumaturgy 16y ago
    Much better. Thank you. :-)
btilly 16y ago
If you're serious about this, I would suggest starting at http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders and working your way down the list.
- kloncks 16y ago
  I strongly disagree. I remember that there came a time when the people with top karmas were given a different decoration around their name. Their name was in bold and gold I believe. This would be too similar. Overall karma count shouldn't be used as a measure to exclude others from participating in this, especially newcomers, who could very easily bring a lot to the table.
  - btilly 16y ago
    I agree that there are people who aren't on that list who would be good to interview. However that list has a high enough density of interesting people that people on HN are likely to be curious about, that it is well worth mining it for suggestions of who to contact.
kloncks 16y ago
Interesting idea. I'd love to see you working with the producer of HackerMonthly to get these in there.
adrianwaj 16y ago
I think a good adjunct to this site would be a list of HN side projects and their creators.
adrianwaj 16y ago
Another idea, is to take the best comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments and ask those commenters to discuss them on video, or whatever. There's film called Waking Life, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=waking+life&aq=f http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=waking+life&... You could give HN readers some version of their own Waking Life.

25 points by cj 16y ago

Vanity :-)

> Despite HN's extraordinary growth in popularity, we've refused to step down to the quality level of Digg and Reddit. Please do not say things like this. 1. It uses these other services as a yardstick by which you measure yourself, thereby placing more importance upon them than upon you; 2. Negative comparisons of competing services is one of the early signs of a corruption in your service -- e.g., Reddit's perceived deterioration was pre-empted by a significant number of its users constantly comparing themselves to Digg's users; 3. Your standards for excellence should be internal, not external. So, instead of saying, "I want to be better than X", you would say, "I want to be the best possible Y." Thanks.

cj 16y ago
Agreed. Just changed it.
- thaumaturgy 16y ago
  Much better. Thank you. :-)

btilly 16y ago

If you're serious about this, I would suggest starting at http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders and working your way down the list.

kloncks 16y ago
I strongly disagree. I remember that there came a time when the people with top karmas were given a different decoration around their name. Their name was in bold and gold I believe. This would be too similar. Overall karma count shouldn't be used as a measure to exclude others from participating in this, especially newcomers, who could very easily bring a lot to the table.
- btilly 16y ago
  I agree that there are people who aren't on that list who would be good to interview. However that list has a high enough density of interesting people that people on HN are likely to be curious about, that it is well worth mining it for suggestions of who to contact.

kloncks 16y ago

Interesting idea. I'd love to see you working with the producer of HackerMonthly to get these in there.

adrianwaj 16y ago

I think a good adjunct to this site would be a list of HN side projects and their creators.

adrianwaj 16y ago

Another idea, is to take the best comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments and ask those commenters to discuss them on video, or whatever. There's film called Waking Life, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=waking+life&aq=f http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=waking+life&... You could give HN readers some version of their own Waking Life.