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The folks on HN seem to be of a generally higher quality than elsewhere on the internet (e.g., Slashdot). Amazingly, spammers, trolls, and opportunists have see
by speedplane 8y ago
The folks on HN seem to be of a generally higher quality than elsewhere on the internet (e.g., Slashdot). Amazingly, spammers, trolls, and opportunists have seemed to largely ignore HN so far (knock on wood). I agree an HN meetup would be broad, but I would hope that it would bring that same higher level of quality.
Can you imagine a Slashdot meetup? Could potentially work at a combination circus-firing range-porn addiction support group, all taking place in your Mom's basement.
- wawhal 8y agoHigh-quality people (as defined by you) still might not have common areas of interests and hence the question still stands: "What will actually be talked/presented/discussed in the meetup?"
- speedplane 8y agoIf the attendees at a conference are high quality, the conference itself will be high quality, there doesn't need to be a heavy overlap of specific interests. If a HN meetup could someway or another uphold that level of quality, it could be a great conference even if the topics are as varied as deep learning - to web frameworks - startup culture - to UBI economics.