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Friendly reminder: this post does not appear on classic HN.[1][2] [1]http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic [2]http://en.wiki

by drats 16y ago

Friendly reminder: this post does not appear on classic HN.[1][2] [1]http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke

cstuder 16y ago
What's classic mode?
- dsteinweg 16y ago
  I think it's where the only submissions displayed are those submitted by users who have karma above a certain threshold (or where their account was created a long time ago, i.e. not new account submissions).
  - rararational 16y ago
    It is actually submissions ranked by HN users whose accounts were created in the first year.
raganwald 16y ago
What are you trying to say and why do you call it a reminder? Are you reminding us to do something specific?
- drats 16y ago
  I think you know what I mean. If I'd just said the article was immature and silly and doesn't belong on HN because of its outrageous tone my feeling is that I'd be downvoted, as it's happened before, so I made my criticism more oblique.[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-censorship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-censorship
  - raganwald 16y ago
    I didn't know what you meant. But that's by the by. A larger question has to do with HN changing as its userbase changes. Things change. Sometimes for the worse: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eternal_September https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eternal_Septe... http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-open-door-heal-or-die.html http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-ope... And sometimes for the better. There was a time when the PC web was all about the newcomers, the barbarians beating at the gates of the establishment. The web was the same way. I can't rule out the possibility that if HN is flooded with newcomers, some of them might be vandals wrecking everything, but some of them might also be ushering in a new age, the new new thing.

by drats 16y ago

cstuder 16y ago

What's classic mode?

dsteinweg 16y ago
I think it's where the only submissions displayed are those submitted by users who have karma above a certain threshold (or where their account was created a long time ago, i.e. not new account submissions).
- rararational 16y ago
  It is actually submissions ranked by HN users whose accounts were created in the first year.

raganwald 16y ago

What are you trying to say and why do you call it a reminder? Are you reminding us to do something specific?

drats 16y ago
I think you know what I mean. If I'd just said the article was immature and silly and doesn't belong on HN because of its outrageous tone my feeling is that I'd be downvoted, as it's happened before, so I made my criticism more oblique.[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-censorship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-censorship
- raganwald 16y ago
  I didn't know what you meant. But that's by the by. A larger question has to do with HN changing as its userbase changes. Things change. Sometimes for the worse: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eternal_September https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eternal_Septe... http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-open-door-heal-or-die.html http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-ope... And sometimes for the better. There was a time when the PC web was all about the newcomers, the barbarians beating at the gates of the establishment. The web was the same way. I can't rule out the possibility that if HN is flooded with newcomers, some of them might be vandals wrecking everything, but some of them might also be ushering in a new age, the new new thing.