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I strongly believe that if the community reaffirms the core guidelines to the newer users nickb is #1 on the leaderboard ... http://news.ycombinator.com/leader

• davidw 18y ago
  And he submits a lot of stuff. 17 people voted the thing up, though.
  • brlewis 18y ago
    I voted it up. A government that wants to surveil its citizens without any accountability is not one that will tolerate an open Internet for long. This story is totally relevant.
    • davidw 18y ago
      It's extremely important, but not so relevant to this and only this site. It's relevant to everyone - we all use the web, email and talk on the phone. Between that and a big red politics flag, to me that means it shouldn't be here. There are much better places to discuss and act on this and the numerous other serious problems with the current government.
    • mhb 18y ago
      Six Degrees of Hacker News is based on a variation of the concept of the small world phenomenon and states that any news story can be found to fit within the submission guidelines of Hacker News. See also: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon)
      • davidw 18y ago
        Hah! I've been thinking the same thing for a while. I think that you win more points in the SDOHN game the more tenuous the connection is: "This Obama article is really about hacker news because ... ... facebook ... ... futures trading ... ... venture capital ... hackers!"
• icey 18y ago
  Even nickb is allowed to misfire once in awhile.