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The primary purpose of hacker news is to aggregate content from other places on the web.... I find someone searching through C2 and posting links to interesting
by scottdw2 15y ago
The primary purpose of hacker news is to aggregate content from other places on the web.... I find someone searching through C2 and posting links to interesting articles to HN a useful for service. Othwerwise HN has no purpose.
- edw 15y agoThe community needs to exercise some collective editorial discretion. If an institution hopes to serve some curatorial purpose, it needs to make choices about what merits inclusion and what doesn't. Asking "the community" to collectively exercise anything is a fool's errand, therefore HN is doomed to suffer from Borges's Map Syndrome.