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I get that Rust is a promising language, but for the love of god, out of the top ten articles on HN's main page 5 are about Rust. Rust is not the only thing I

I get that Rust is a promising language, but for the love of god, out of the top ten articles on HN's main page 5 are about Rust. Rust is not the only thing I come here for.

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idoncarfb 7y ago
And this got down-voted into oblivion, of course. Rust fanatics are a very fragile crowd and they don't like to hear that other people might not be interested. It's sad, but HN is becoming just like reddit.
- steveklabnik 7y ago
  Hacker News generally downvotes meta complaints, as well as complaining about downvotes, regardless of topic. As always, emailing the mods is more productive than complaining in threads.
  - jacquesm 7y ago
    Yes, but seriously Steve, this is getting out of hand and is harming Rust, not helping it. If the price of general Rust adoption is the destruction of HN then I would rather pass. Get some discipline in there or I'll start flagging each and every submission that has Rust in the title as a counterweight or petition that having 'Rust' in the title penalizes a submission. HN is a commons, not a private mailing list for Rust fans.
    - steveklabnik 7y ago
      I don’t know what kind of “discipline” you expect me to have. I just post here like everyone else. I’m in charge of no one. Feel free to flag things; that’s what you’re supposed to do. You could also do what I do: ignore topics I don’t care about. There’s a lot of content on Hacker News.
      - jacquesm 7y ago
        You're in charge of no-one but you are seen as influential within the Rust community, if you would make a statement that spamming HN with Rust articles does not help Rust at all that would likely carry some weight.
        steveklabnik 7y ago
        I think you have some basic assumptions that are leading you astray. For example, two of the stories that landed on HN today paint Rust in a negative light; if I were trying to promote Rust, I wouldn’t be submitting them. If this were being done by the Rust community as a promotional tactic, it would be misguided.
layoutIfNeeded 7y ago
Sad to see that Rust astroturfing is regularly taking over the front page.
- dang 7y ago
  Please don't break the site guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
armSixtyFour 7y ago
I remember reading it was everyone's favorite weekend language. There's certainly more people using it over the weekend than using it professionally. Maybe that's why there's so much of here today.

I get that Rust is a promising language, but for the love of god, out of the top ten articles on HN's main page 5 are about Rust. Rust is not the only thing I come here for.

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idoncarfb 7y ago

And this got down-voted into oblivion, of course. Rust fanatics are a very fragile crowd and they don't like to hear that other people might not be interested. It's sad, but HN is becoming just like reddit.

steveklabnik 7y ago
Hacker News generally downvotes meta complaints, as well as complaining about downvotes, regardless of topic. As always, emailing the mods is more productive than complaining in threads.
- jacquesm 7y ago
  Yes, but seriously Steve, this is getting out of hand and is harming Rust, not helping it. If the price of general Rust adoption is the destruction of HN then I would rather pass. Get some discipline in there or I'll start flagging each and every submission that has Rust in the title as a counterweight or petition that having 'Rust' in the title penalizes a submission. HN is a commons, not a private mailing list for Rust fans.
  - steveklabnik 7y ago
    I don’t know what kind of “discipline” you expect me to have. I just post here like everyone else. I’m in charge of no one. Feel free to flag things; that’s what you’re supposed to do. You could also do what I do: ignore topics I don’t care about. There’s a lot of content on Hacker News.
    - jacquesm 7y ago
      You're in charge of no-one but you are seen as influential within the Rust community, if you would make a statement that spamming HN with Rust articles does not help Rust at all that would likely carry some weight.
      - steveklabnik 7y ago
        I think you have some basic assumptions that are leading you astray. For example, two of the stories that landed on HN today paint Rust in a negative light; if I were trying to promote Rust, I wouldn’t be submitting them. If this were being done by the Rust community as a promotional tactic, it would be misguided.

layoutIfNeeded 7y ago

Sad to see that Rust astroturfing is regularly taking over the front page.

dang 7y ago
Please don't break the site guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

armSixtyFour 7y ago

I remember reading it was everyone's favorite weekend language. There's certainly more people using it over the weekend than using it professionally. Maybe that's why there's so much of here today.