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story of my life.

by newt0311 18y ago

story of my life.

c1sc0 18y ago
that's fine, but does xkcd really belong here?
- rms 18y ago
  please not this again
  - eznet 18y ago
    Agreed. Although there has been a considerable amount of "unsuitable" material make it to the front page of HN, there has also been a lot of pointless citation of this unsuitable material - to the degree that it dominates constructive dialog taking place. HN is changing, no doubt, but as has been pointed out time and time again on HN, if it is of interest to the community at large, it belongs. The community is changing (undeniable) but, maybe it is that sometimes posts other than an amazing O(N) bubble sort are also of interest... I, for one, enjoy chuckling at XKCD - typically I just go there myself (without the aid of a social bookmark site!), but perhaps this one is just relevant enough to make it on HN... Or maybe I am wrong.
    - tialys 18y ago
      It seems to me though that posting something like XKCD is simply for getting Karma. It's not like the people who read it don't already check every monday,wednesday and friday morning... or is that just me?
      - pchristensen 18y ago
        Either that or people have felt pain when installing Linux before.
      - whacked_new 18y ago
        Not just you, but I belong in the camp that never checks xkcd on my own. Not a fan, probably never will be, but if the community thinks its interesting, might as well. This one was indeed interesting.
        silentbicycle 18y ago
        Anything updated periodically probably works better with RSS (subscription model), while sites like Hacker News seem better at aggregating interesting scattered content (and hosting the resulting discussion). There's certainly room for overlap (e.g. "look at the interesting post on this blog, subscribe if you like it"), but people submitting every single update as they occur will probably detract from the signal here.
      - maximilian 18y ago
        Except that nickb posted it, and doesn't he have like infinite karma by now anyway?
- sant0sk1 18y ago
  Careful analysis of this post's score will answer your question for you.
  - DougBTX 18y ago
    The HN aim used to be set above "popular".
    - jcl 18y ago
      How so? The HN front page is designed to only show the most recent, most popular articles.
    - sant0sk1 18y ago
      The fact that XKCD comics, when submitted, reach front page status almost every time indicates that they belong right where they are.
      - pchristensen 18y ago
        Actually, xkcd has been off the front page (or at least not high up it) for a while.
        sant0sk1 18y ago
        Which is why I said "when submitted". Unless I am missing a bunch of XKCD submissions which aren't getting front paged...
        pchristensen 18y ago
        I've seen a few on the "New" page with 2 or 3 votes and no comments. Besides, if they're only occasionally submitted, then isn't that a good quality filter?
        sant0sk1 18y ago

story of my life.

c1sc0 18y ago

that's fine, but does xkcd really belong here?

rms 18y ago
please not this again
- eznet 18y ago
  Agreed. Although there has been a considerable amount of "unsuitable" material make it to the front page of HN, there has also been a lot of pointless citation of this unsuitable material - to the degree that it dominates constructive dialog taking place. HN is changing, no doubt, but as has been pointed out time and time again on HN, if it is of interest to the community at large, it belongs. The community is changing (undeniable) but, maybe it is that sometimes posts other than an amazing O(N) bubble sort are also of interest... I, for one, enjoy chuckling at XKCD - typically I just go there myself (without the aid of a social bookmark site!), but perhaps this one is just relevant enough to make it on HN... Or maybe I am wrong.
  - tialys 18y ago
    It seems to me though that posting something like XKCD is simply for getting Karma. It's not like the people who read it don't already check every monday,wednesday and friday morning... or is that just me?
    - pchristensen 18y ago
      Either that or people have felt pain when installing Linux before.
    - whacked_new 18y ago
      Not just you, but I belong in the camp that never checks xkcd on my own. Not a fan, probably never will be, but if the community thinks its interesting, might as well. This one was indeed interesting.
      - silentbicycle 18y ago
        Anything updated periodically probably works better with RSS (subscription model), while sites like Hacker News seem better at aggregating interesting scattered content (and hosting the resulting discussion). There's certainly room for overlap (e.g. "look at the interesting post on this blog, subscribe if you like it"), but people submitting every single update as they occur will probably detract from the signal here.
    - maximilian 18y ago
      Except that nickb posted it, and doesn't he have like infinite karma by now anyway?
sant0sk1 18y ago
Careful analysis of this post's score will answer your question for you.
- DougBTX 18y ago
  The HN aim used to be set above "popular".
  - jcl 18y ago
    How so? The HN front page is designed to only show the most recent, most popular articles.
  - sant0sk1 18y ago
    The fact that XKCD comics, when submitted, reach front page status almost every time indicates that they belong right where they are.
    - pchristensen 18y ago
      Actually, xkcd has been off the front page (or at least not high up it) for a while.
      - sant0sk1 18y ago
        Which is why I said "when submitted". Unless I am missing a bunch of XKCD submissions which aren't getting front paged...
        pchristensen 18y ago
        I've seen a few on the "New" page with 2 or 3 votes and no comments. Besides, if they're only occasionally submitted, then isn't that a good quality filter?
        sant0sk1 18y ago