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I think trying to resist the monoculture is a mistake. Your stated aim for the constituency of the news.yc community is "the 10,000 best hackers and nobody els
by dfranke 18y ago
I think trying to resist the monoculture is a mistake.
Your stated aim for the constituency of the news.yc community is "the 10,000 best hackers and nobody else". If you achieved that aim, you'd have a monoculture. It would be a slightly different monoculture than the current one and less in your image, but a monoculture nonetheless. If it's even possible to move away from monoculture without moving toward Digg, I don't think it's worth the risk of trying.
- nostrademons 18y agoIt could be that in order to get the 10,000 best hackers, he has to resist the monoculture. Good hackers usually get that way because they're curious and like to learn new things. It gets boring when the same few dozen people submit the same thousand articles.
- dfranke 18y agoI'm talking about a monoculture of values, not of abilities or interests. "Curious and like to learn new things" is one aspect of the monoculture that I'm referring to. It's a relatively uncommon attribute.