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Some information only matters to you if you know right now. Timeliness and relevancy are important to the user. The existence of the New page on HN and users wh
by aspenmayer 6y ago
Some information only matters to you if you know right now. Timeliness and relevancy are important to the user. The existence of the New page on HN and users who visit it prove that the search for the right content at the right time is one worth it to those to visit New.
- pvg 6y agoHN is just not that kind of site, really. The existence of the new page does not 'prove' anything more than the name. Newly submitted stuff has to go somewhere, it doesn't mean it urgently needs to reach users. The FAQ, the guidelines, zillions of dang posts talk about the sort of things that make good HN posts and 'newsiness' is not high among them.
- aspenmayer 6y agoI’m not saying it proves anything. I’m saying HN the site is different things to different people. It’s hard to say what people intend when they upvote something, but I think they mean that it helped them and think it belongs on HN. By virtue of upvoting, they signal its relevance to them and their vote of confidence in its relevance to the wider HN community. I don’t have any burden to prove here or any angle to promote. Users vote, and HN is the result. HN wouldn’t be HN without its values (thank you) or its users (thank you all).
- pvg 6y agoUsers vote, and HN is the result I think you're cycling through a sort of greatest hits of various common misconceptions about the way HN works and you're better off just reading dang's moderator comments for a little bit - this stuff comes up all the time and he addresses it with better detail, accuracy and nuance than I can. You'll be in a better position to then make your critique rather than debating it with less familiarity and with some internet rando who's lecturing you about how you have it all wrong.