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Agree on search, it is now open for non users. Affiliation is to avoid content dilution. Any alternative ideas are welcome (and as you can see with search, impl

Agree on search, it is now open for non users. Affiliation is to avoid content dilution. Any alternative ideas are welcome (and as you can see with search, implemented)

mazsa 8y ago
Great, thank you.
jowdones 8y ago
Idea: die in a fire. Really, go f yourself with your hardcore authoritarian censorship right from the beginning. HN is bad enough (and I bet you a month's salary they'll obliterate my post) but at least they allow SOME level of free expression. You on the other hand represent the most disgusting essence of human wickedness disguised as elitism.
- keldaris 8y ago
  By dispensing with even the pretense of elementary civility you've demonstrated exactly why some measure of censorship is often crucial.
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dragon96 8y ago
I'm a recent math graduate, working for a couple years before going back for a PhD. I'm a little sad about the affiliation requirement because I'd really like to be able to read and ask questions, even if I am a fool (relative to the rest of the community). As someone who does not get to work in an academic setting or regularly attend conferences, I wish I could still have opportunities to participate in these communities. I don't know if Hessix was meant to include people like me, but I would really love to be a part of it.
- whunting 8y ago
  Absolutely dragon96 drop. Its by no means meant to be elitist. I just don't know any other way to avoid low quality content. Please send me an email at hsx at hessix dot com and ill send you a registration link.
jimhefferon 8y ago
What is the means of determining affiliation, I wonder? I entered my email, which is <collegename>.edu and it didn't like it.
- whunting 8y ago
  It auto checks affiliation and PhD status from a limited list of universities. If there is no match it puts the registration temporarily on hold until I can quickly check myself
  - jimhefferon 8y ago
    I see, thank you.
hombre_fatal 8y ago
> Affiliation is to avoid content dilution. You don't any users, you have an incredibly tiny niche, and starting a new forum these days is already ultra hard. You should be working on getting users at all costs, not planning for the glamorous problems you might have if your moonshot happens to land, like having too many math novices cluttering up the high brow academic discussion. lol, c'mon. You need to understand that right now your forum is about as enticing as installing vBulletin on localhost to talk to yourself, just without the arxiv.org bot. I started a large forum over a decade ago when it was easier. I spent almost a year sockpuppeting with myself so the first users didn't arrive at an empty forum. And that was in a popular forum-faring niche. I look at your forum and you couldn't even be bothered to write a single comment on launch day. What's the plan? As for affiliation, make it optional. Affiliated users get a little icon next to their username.
- whunting 8y ago
  It's now open to everyone with an email account, PhD highlight is optional. Thanks
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Agree on search, it is now open for non users. Affiliation is to avoid content dilution. Any alternative ideas are welcome (and as you can see with search, implemented)

mazsa 8y ago

Great, thank you.

jowdones 8y ago

Idea: die in a fire. Really, go f yourself with your hardcore authoritarian censorship right from the beginning. HN is bad enough (and I bet you a month's salary they'll obliterate my post) but at least they allow SOME level of free expression. You on the other hand represent the most disgusting essence of human wickedness disguised as elitism.

keldaris 8y ago
By dispensing with even the pretense of elementary civility you've demonstrated exactly why some measure of censorship is often crucial.
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dragon96 8y ago

I'm a recent math graduate, working for a couple years before going back for a PhD. I'm a little sad about the affiliation requirement because I'd really like to be able to read and ask questions, even if I am a fool (relative to the rest of the community). As someone who does not get to work in an academic setting or regularly attend conferences, I wish I could still have opportunities to participate in these communities. I don't know if Hessix was meant to include people like me, but I would really love to be a part of it.

whunting 8y ago
Absolutely dragon96 drop. Its by no means meant to be elitist. I just don't know any other way to avoid low quality content. Please send me an email at hsx at hessix dot com and ill send you a registration link.

jimhefferon 8y ago

What is the means of determining affiliation, I wonder? I entered my email, which is <collegename>.edu and it didn't like it.

whunting 8y ago
It auto checks affiliation and PhD status from a limited list of universities. If there is no match it puts the registration temporarily on hold until I can quickly check myself
- jimhefferon 8y ago
  I see, thank you.

hombre_fatal 8y ago

> Affiliation is to avoid content dilution. You don't any users, you have an incredibly tiny niche, and starting a new forum these days is already ultra hard. You should be working on getting users at all costs, not planning for the glamorous problems you might have if your moonshot happens to land, like having too many math novices cluttering up the high brow academic discussion. lol, c'mon. You need to understand that right now your forum is about as enticing as installing vBulletin on localhost to talk to yourself, just without the arxiv.org bot. I started a large forum over a decade ago when it was easier. I spent almost a year sockpuppeting with myself so the first users didn't arrive at an empty forum. And that was in a popular forum-faring niche. I look at your forum and you couldn't even be bothered to write a single comment on launch day. What's the plan? As for affiliation, make it optional. Affiliated users get a little icon next to their username.

whunting 8y ago
It's now open to everyone with an email account, PhD highlight is optional. Thanks

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