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Geez. Your comment's killed already? I tend to agree with you FWIW. General-interest(ing) stuff is fine, esp for the "hacker spirit" angle, but I think there's
by SilasX 7y ago
Geez. Your comment's killed already? I tend to agree with you FWIW. General-interest(ing) stuff is fine, esp for the "hacker spirit" angle, but I think there's such a thing as too much, and the whole site just degrades into quirky-insight porn -- I wish we'd see less of such stories, but not outright ban them. I also wish we could downvote submissions without outright flagging them (which is for spam/trolling).
- throwaway17_17 7y agoI really like the phrasing ‘quirky-insight porn’, I think it captures this sort of thing exceptionally well. I have, at times wanted less of said QIP, however, because of my personal interests I would like to never see a JavaScript, webdev, Rust, etc article posted either. However, I still browse, still read the comments, and even sometime read TFA and don’t consider it a waste of time, so all in all I’m pretty okay with the state of things.
- jshevek 7y agoIs flagging of submissions only for spam, trolling, etc? I'm often tempted to flag submissions for lesser reasons, so I'd like to know. I'm curious how this fits, also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23087769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23087769
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoI’ve always thought of Flag as being for “submissions that are off topic”. Which includes spam but also eg celebrity gossip. (I wouldn’t consider this submission off topic)