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What's the slippery slope?
by yters 19y ago
What's the slippery slope?
- superkarn 19y agoIt's a form of censorship, albeit a subtle one with possibly good reasons. That's reason I voted for "Remain visible to Yahoo, MSN search." Had option two been "Be invisible to all search engines.", then I would've voted for that one. But then YC would need to offer its own search.
- ntoshev 19y agoAt least two dimensions: - tying the site to specific products. pg may decide firefox browser is the best predictor for being a hacker and ban all other browsers. Would you like that? - introducing bias to the community. the search engine may be a correct predictor for being a hacker, but what about the false negtives: do we want to exclude the hackers working on MSN search engine from this community, for example? I certainly don't.
- yters 19y agoThat would be a problem if the decision is technology centered. But, it isn't. Technology is only incidental to making HN membership more challenging, and making a certain technology the de facto standard is anti-thetical to challenge. See why Fisher thinks chess is dead.