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Are we destined to spend the next 10 years endlessly rehashing the same stale arguments of the last 10 years? First we'll debate if Bitcoin is a Ponzi scam. N
by panarky 7y ago
Are we destined to spend the next 10 years endlessly rehashing the same stale arguments of the last 10 years?
First we'll debate if Bitcoin is a Ponzi scam.
Next it'll be whether there's any non-criminal use case.
Then how it's not "real money".
Please, won't some very intelligent dude please educate us all about Dutch tulips?
- wmf 7y agoThis is inherent to the structure of HN. Fix the system, fix the discussion.
- remmargorp64 7y agoHow would you fix it? I see the constant rehashing as a byproduct of the fact that the same old topics get reposted over and over again as they resurge in relevance. I see this as a byproduct of crowd consciousness. Not everyone is going to see a post before it dips out of sight, so it's bound to pop back up again eventually (if it becomes relevant again), and then new people will see the second/third/fourth postings. As such, the same rebuttals have to be posted over and over again, so that the new audience has contextual information. It's not an easy problem to solve.
- wmf 7y agoThreads don't have to start with a blank page. There should be a way to surface background context.
- remmargorp64 7y agoThat's not a bad idea, but you would need to have some mechanism to prevent popular (but now irrelevant) information from previous posts from immediately overwhelming the new context.
- panarky 7y agoPerhaps it's a variant of Eternal September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September