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What's the point of submitting stories about security problems? What's the point of submitting stories about Google? What's the point about submitting stories a
by gst 15y ago
What's the point of submitting stories about security problems? What's the point of submitting stories about Google? What's the point about submitting stories about Rails?
People are interested in it and that's why it gets upvoted. If you're not interested just don't read it.
- yaakov34 15y ago"If you're not careful, you might have your private information stolen online. You may even lose money to an identity thief!" "Google is a large technology company which runs the world's most popular search engine." These are NOT good stories for HN, because the people here /know this already/. There is nothing wrong with introductory stories as such. In the case of bitcoin, there is also a suspicion of an ulterior motive in promoting bitcoin stories. As for "don't read it" -- forums are damaged when the noise (and spam) level is high. I can express my opinion by commenting, unless a moderator tells me not to.
- michael_dorfman 15y agoI'm not the GP, but I'd be equally annoyed if people were continually posting stories about Google or Rails or security problems that added nothing new to the conversation. At this point, the Bitcoin story has been pretty well picked over, and I'm not convinced there's anything new to say. And, the fact that the stories continue to get upvotes is precisely what is troubling.
- knowtheory 15y agoWell, truth of the matter is, once posts hit the front page, additional discussion (number/rate of comments) seems to be the greatest determinant for whether a post will stay up top. So really the only way to get the stories to fall off is to stop talking about them.