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PG: can you please add xkcd hostname to the blacklist? Not because it's bad -- actually it's brilliant, but adds very little to this community in terms of news.

by prakash 18y ago

PG: can you please add xkcd hostname to the blacklist? Not because it's bad -- actually it's brilliant, but adds very little to this community in terms of news. After getting techcrunched, is xkcd the second sign of HN going the reddit way?

GavinB 18y ago
"If the AI stops wanting to be friendly, you've already lost." Something similar is true of social media user groups.
icey 18y ago
It'd be pretty sweet to allow us to put a list of domains we don't want to see links for in our preferences.
- prakash 18y ago
  I had asked for something similar a while back.
  - neilc 18y ago
    Why not just do it yourself via Greasemonkey? The bitching about xkcd is getting annoying (as is the constant speculation about "Is this the moment when HN is going to jump the shark?)
- brianlash 18y ago
  Interesting point, but that's a slippery slope away from a big community and toward a system of silos for those whose preferences closely match your own. I don't think that's what HN's about. The uncommon position of this site is that it's a diverse community of people with intermixing ideas and persuasions. Neat things happen when they work together (and when they argue). I'd be worried you'd lose a piece of that if HN started allowing users to establish their own filtering preferences, even if based on something as simple as domain blocking. For the record I did love this post. Was it news? No. But we stretch the definition of "hacker news" to include topical things all the time. Why not permit it here?
bigtoga 18y ago
Greasemonkey + HN Blacklist = far better HN http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
kyro 18y ago
It's very simple to continue your eye movement a couple more centimeters so as to skip the xkcd entries. It's also very easy to restrain yourself from upvoting it or clicking through. It's also very easy to not get worked up over it as xkcd entries only make it to the front page every once in a while. You don't need an article to spark interesting discussion. A comic can do the same, and from what I've seen in this thread, there's some interesting discussion.
- icey 18y ago
  The point isn't that we can't overlook them. The point is that the slide from XKCD to lolcats can be subtle.
  - alex_c 18y ago
    I don't know, I think most of us can tell the difference between XKCD and lolcats.
fff123 18y ago
What is this whining to Daddy shit? YC News is full of such a bunch of crybabies -- and that includes a lot of the editors.
mynameishere 18y ago
I hate it when there's some stupid, dreadfully stupid entry, whose only point of interest is the potential complaints in the comment section, and then finding that such complaints are downmodded so hard. I don't know if a blacklist is the answer, but this 'toon wasted more of my life than it deserved to.

by prakash 18y ago

GavinB 18y ago

"If the AI stops wanting to be friendly, you've already lost." Something similar is true of social media user groups.

icey 18y ago

It'd be pretty sweet to allow us to put a list of domains we don't want to see links for in our preferences.

prakash 18y ago
I had asked for something similar a while back.
- neilc 18y ago
  Why not just do it yourself via Greasemonkey? The bitching about xkcd is getting annoying (as is the constant speculation about "Is this the moment when HN is going to jump the shark?)
brianlash 18y ago
Interesting point, but that's a slippery slope away from a big community and toward a system of silos for those whose preferences closely match your own. I don't think that's what HN's about. The uncommon position of this site is that it's a diverse community of people with intermixing ideas and persuasions. Neat things happen when they work together (and when they argue). I'd be worried you'd lose a piece of that if HN started allowing users to establish their own filtering preferences, even if based on something as simple as domain blocking. For the record I did love this post. Was it news? No. But we stretch the definition of "hacker news" to include topical things all the time. Why not permit it here?

bigtoga 18y ago

Greasemonkey + HN Blacklist = far better HN http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

kyro 18y ago

It's very simple to continue your eye movement a couple more centimeters so as to skip the xkcd entries. It's also very easy to restrain yourself from upvoting it or clicking through. It's also very easy to not get worked up over it as xkcd entries only make it to the front page every once in a while. You don't need an article to spark interesting discussion. A comic can do the same, and from what I've seen in this thread, there's some interesting discussion.

icey 18y ago
The point isn't that we can't overlook them. The point is that the slide from XKCD to lolcats can be subtle.
- alex_c 18y ago
  I don't know, I think most of us can tell the difference between XKCD and lolcats.

fff123 18y ago

What is this whining to Daddy shit? YC News is full of such a bunch of crybabies -- and that includes a lot of the editors.

mynameishere 18y ago

I hate it when there's some stupid, dreadfully stupid entry, whose only point of interest is the potential complaints in the comment section, and then finding that such complaints are downmodded so hard. I don't know if a blacklist is the answer, but this 'toon wasted more of my life than it deserved to.