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Following your argument to its logical conclusion, HN should stop linking to external sites because if people are in a site X mood, they will go to site X, for
by biot 16y ago
Following your argument to its logical conclusion, HN should stop linking to external sites because if people are in a site X mood, they will go to site X, for any value X.
For myself, I don't visit Reddit unless there's something interesting linked to from elsewhere, such as HN. Thus, I appreciate this being posted to HN.
- rbanffy 16y ago> HN should stop linking to external sites because if people are in a site X mood, they will go to site X, for any value X Your reasoning is flawed. The value of HN is its community and the discussions it's capable of spawninf. There are sites for discussing an ampler spectrum of subjects (like, for instance, the nature of the universe and laws of physics) and sites for discussing news that interest specifically to hackers (according to the definition implied in the "Hackers and Painters" book).
- SoftwareMaven 16y agoAnd that argument is exactly why the comment should be linked here. If the Reddit comment had been a blog post, everything would have been fine, right? I want to see the comment and get to stay here for the conversation.