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Why has HN become the forum via which people aire/settle their personal disagreements in the tech community? Why do we allow and highlight blog posts doing thi
by busterarm 6y ago
Why has HN become the forum via which people aire/settle their personal disagreements in the tech community?
Why do we allow and highlight blog posts doing things that we wouldn't allow between users in the comments?
I swear like twice a week there's an "X was mean to Y" thread naming names and companies. We've developed an appetite for personal drama and it isn't healthy. This is like our version of a gossip column.
Edit: How do we not have better standards than 4chan, where the immediate response would be "Not Your Personal Army" and move on?
- Firerouge 6y agoThis analysis seems to be based on a shallow reading of the content. Much of the post is a background into the author's experience learning programming to create uniquely featured plugins, intermixed with complaints about the tech ecosystem they're walled-gardened in, followed by a product announcement for Séanceur. This seems exactly like the posts HN is all about
- busterarm 6y ago90% of the post is a long, emotion-fueled rant with a product announcement at the very end. Framing matters. We all learned this by high school. If you're trying to pitch new thing, the form of the article should be inverted. That's the difference between well-intentioned content with a reader in mind and something that's self-serving instead. Some bloggers need editors. Worse still, the last section about Séanceur kind of indicates that the author doesn't have a very good understanding of what it is they're building and makes me call into question the entire account.
- Firerouge 6y agoPersonally I don't think HN should discourage or censor blog posts for being verbose, airing relevant recent personal drama, or taking a roundabout path to their point
- busterarm 6y agoPersonal drama aired out in comments is very much not allowed. Why should we allow it in posts?
- Firerouge 6y agoThis sounds wildly incorrect to me, I've seen many comments here that share personal anecdotes and stories of drama with companies and executives. I'm not sure what you're referencing in the guidelines that would ban such posts? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- busterarm 6y agoI could have swore there used to be a rule there about no personal attacks.