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Actually, it is the announcement of an event, many of the HN readers might want to follow. So posting a link that informs about the event seems not to be off-to
by _ph_ 6y ago
Actually, it is the announcement of an event, many of the HN readers might want to follow. So posting a link that informs about the event seems not to be off-topic to me. I wouldn't want to miss the event so I am happy the link appeared here on HN.
- JohnDeHope 6y agoI’d love a tagging system a la steam game tags where announce-of-announcement was a tag with a community of interested and engaged people who were vetting and tagging and hashing out what it means to be an announcement of an announcement. And then also there could be another community of similarly minded announcement-of-event people, likely with a bit of Venn diagram overlap, operating independently. And so on and so forth.
- jzymbaluk 6y agoOr just ignore posts that don't interest you, it's way easier
- snazz 6y agoLike the lobste.rs tagging system? I'm not sure how popular that would be here, but it might be cool.
- tptacek 6y agoIt's not going to happen. Not "fragmenting" the community, but rather keeping everyone in the same "silo" of topics, is kind of core to the identity of the site. If you want tags, that's a thing Lobste.rs is good at.
- pvg 6y agoThere are lots of places to learn about a major Apple event (if anything, it's hard to miss it) that aren't the 30 slots on the HN front page. Yours is a variant of the 'everything is related to everything somehow' rationale with which you can argue anything is on-topic on any form that has topic rules. It's a fun argument but makes for lousy forums.
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- dang 6y agoI hear you and yes, that is valuable. We have to optimize for the general case, though. It definitely isn't optimal to have threads like this one, and then another when the actual announcement is made, and then probably another thread when $thing is eventually released.