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dang, if you read this, I think you should seriously consider banning earnings report articles. They always come and clutter up the feed, hiding the substantive

dang, if you read this, I think you should seriously consider banning earnings report articles. They always come and clutter up the feed, hiding the substantive information and technical news I come to Hacker News specifically for. Because I feel like if I really wanted a feed of quarterly earnings, I’d be on Google Finance or something, not HN. The name is Hacker News, or has that been forgotten at this point?

seizethecheese 8y ago
Personally, these are some of my favorite threads.
seizethecheese 8y ago
These happen to be some of my favorite threads. YCombinator is a technology business accelerator after all, so there's a lot of interest in this stuff here.
nathanaldensr 8y ago
HN has, since the 2016 Presidential election, become a dumping ground for low-quality pieces from various popular media outlets (you know the ones I'm talking about), as well as all kinds of generally-interesting-but-not-related-to-tech-in-any-way stories. My guess is that since the very idea of a "startup" has waned in recent years, the readership has shifted from a technical one to a political one. There isn't much any one of us can do to correct this. The people who want this kind of content apparently now outnumber folks like us who wish that content would stay on Reddit.
- dang 8y ago
  People have been saying that for a long time now: 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243561 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243561 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1542380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1542380 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485 There has always been a mix of general-interest and technical articles on HN, and a certain portion of politics. I wrote more about this if anyone wants more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18511923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18511923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869
outworlder 8y ago
> I think you should seriously consider banning earnings report articles. They always come and clutter up the feed, hiding the substantive information and technical news I come to Hacker News specifically for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

seizethecheese 8y ago

Personally, these are some of my favorite threads.

seizethecheese 8y ago

These happen to be some of my favorite threads. YCombinator is a technology business accelerator after all, so there's a lot of interest in this stuff here.

nathanaldensr 8y ago

HN has, since the 2016 Presidential election, become a dumping ground for low-quality pieces from various popular media outlets (you know the ones I'm talking about), as well as all kinds of generally-interesting-but-not-related-to-tech-in-any-way stories. My guess is that since the very idea of a "startup" has waned in recent years, the readership has shifted from a technical one to a political one. There isn't much any one of us can do to correct this. The people who want this kind of content apparently now outnumber folks like us who wish that content would stay on Reddit.

dang 8y ago
People have been saying that for a long time now: 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243561 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243561 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1542380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1542380 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485 There has always been a mix of general-interest and technical articles on HN, and a certain portion of politics. I wrote more about this if anyone wants more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18511923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18511923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

outworlder 8y ago

> I think you should seriously consider banning earnings report articles. They always come and clutter up the feed, hiding the substantive information and technical news I come to Hacker News specifically for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.