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What makes YCombinator special is draining away. I've been reading YCombinator since when most of YCombinator's submissions got 0 to 1 or 3 comments throughout
by maeon3 16y ago
What makes YCombinator special is draining away. I've been reading YCombinator since when most of YCombinator's submissions got 0 to 1 or 3 comments throughout its life on the front page.
The millions of reddit and digg users are spending more time on this site and I can see the influence literally increasing every month. By November 2011 the front page of YCombinator will look the same as digg looked back in 2006 and 2007. Ycombinator will have hundreds of thousands of voters, and the lulz will get more upvotes then sophisticated discussion.
The only way to stop it will be to forcefully regulate it, a system like they have over at stackoverflow seems to be working. If YCombinator doesn't implement something like this. Then YCombinator will have to find a new domain name, and only tell the constructive users what it is.
- sokoloff 16y agoYou realize that Martin's post was about the "real" YCombinator, not about the ancillary news.yc site? news.yc could be completely overrun by 4chan types and YCombinator itself would still be massively valuable to founders.
- vikramhaer 16y agoIt's frustrating to see comments being made about the quality of conversation by people who haven't read the article they're commenting on. The points mentioned refer to the program, not hacker news.
- zacharycohn 16y agoAlternatively, it's educating "millions" (hundreds or low thousands is more likely if you're just looking at people who comment) of people about technology, startups, entrepreneurship, while maintaining a community of reasonably high level intelligence. If people would stop complaining all the time and just teach the newcomers (downvote and a reply explaining why this isn't the kind of behavior expected at HN) would be a lot more valuable than a bunch of "back in my day" complaining.
- Smirnoff 16y agoHaha. You made my day. Please click on the title. It has a link to the article. Also, the article referred to Y-Combinator as to a tech incubator and not just a news aggregator. Let me know if you need help clicking on the title link ;)