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This: "It has no special relevance to hackers" is the key. We have general news sites for general news. I'm sure we all know how to get there. Nobody is going t
by icey 18y ago
This: "It has no special relevance to hackers" is the key. We have general news sites for general news. I'm sure we all know how to get there. Nobody is going to be informed for the first time that Tim Russert has died by coming here. So now you have to ask yourself, what does it add to the conversation?
This is not a general news aggregator, we have those in spades, and the chances are that we all know where to find them. It's disheartening that this has gotten so many upvotes.
- rplevy 18y agoUpmodded this, downmodded its parent. Bottom line is that we read other feeds to learn about general news, and expect a higher SNR on this site, restricted to relevant domains. Downmods != disagree is correct, but I would not want to inhibit any downmod that improves the SNR and preserves the quality of a great news forum.
- dfranke 18y agonews.yc is not just a news aggregator. It's also a community, one which is populated by people whose opinions I value more than those on general news aggregators. I might not be reading about Tim Russert's death for the first time, but I might still read something insightful about it that I wouldn't have seen elsewhere. You could fill the front page with articles about knitting, and if you could still get the same group of people to hang around, it would be still be more interesting than a typical day on Digg.
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