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Already requested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511824 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511824

by veyron 15y ago

ColinWright 15y ago
Yes, but that's buried in a long discussion about ideas in general, and here I'm interested in a specific, long-standing problem (as I see it) that I'd like to see addressed. Alternatively, I'll just stop trying to perform a service by cross-referencing things if people - on the whole - don't care. I'm just tired of people telling me they value it, then seeing that I get down-voted each time. I'd like a sense of what people really think. A poll is the closest I can get to that.
- tokenadult 15y ago
  Yes, but that's buried in a long discussion about ideas in general, I generally agree with the premise of your original post (and I deal with it by providing links to earlier submissions by hand) but here you provide the rationale for submitting stories more than once.
- dwwoelfel 15y ago
  I'm just tired of people telling me they value it, then seeing that I get down-voted each time. I find them useful, but I only upvote them if I see that they are below the level of the worthless comments or if I can tell that they have a negative score. If everyone acts like me, you're more likely to lose points on a cross-referencing comment than to gain them. You've done a lot of complaining about the HN community. You seem not to trust them to do what is in the best interest of HN. Why let them determine what you post?
  - ColinWright 15y ago
    You've done a lot of complaining about the HN community. You seem not to trust them to do what is in the best interest of HN. Interesting observation. I hadn't thought about it from that point of view. I think you're right. I think I used to trust the community to do the right thing, and now I don't. That's a useful comment - thank you for making that suddenly so clear.

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Already requested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511824 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511824

by veyron 15y ago

Already requested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511824 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2511824

ColinWright 15y ago
Yes, but that's buried in a long discussion about ideas in general, and here I'm interested in a specific, long-standing problem (as I see it) that I'd like to see addressed. Alternatively, I'll just stop trying to perform a service by cross-referencing things if people - on the whole - don't care. I'm just tired of people telling me they value it, then seeing that I get down-voted each time. I'd like a sense of what people really think. A poll is the closest I can get to that.
- tokenadult 15y ago
  Yes, but that's buried in a long discussion about ideas in general, I generally agree with the premise of your original post (and I deal with it by providing links to earlier submissions by hand) but here you provide the rationale for submitting stories more than once.
- dwwoelfel 15y ago
  I'm just tired of people telling me they value it, then seeing that I get down-voted each time. I find them useful, but I only upvote them if I see that they are below the level of the worthless comments or if I can tell that they have a negative score. If everyone acts like me, you're more likely to lose points on a cross-referencing comment than to gain them. You've done a lot of complaining about the HN community. You seem not to trust them to do what is in the best interest of HN. Why let them determine what you post?
  - ColinWright 15y ago
    You've done a lot of complaining about the HN community. You seem not to trust them to do what is in the best interest of HN. Interesting observation. I hadn't thought about it from that point of view. I think you're right. I think I used to trust the community to do the right thing, and now I don't. That's a useful comment - thank you for making that suddenly so clear.