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How is this in any way HN material?
by ptomato 15y ago
How is this in any way HN material?
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- lowglow 15y agoIt just means that the HN audience is also a subset of reddit's audience.
- tlrobinson 15y agoIt doesn't matter, if HN users legitimately voted it onto the front page, it's by definition HN material.
- ptomato 15y agoNot necessarily, or things would never get killed off the front page by the mods.
- tlrobinson 15y agoWell, it hasn't been killed yet, has it? ;)
- davidw 15y agoSo if I get a bunch of people interested in professional bicycle racing to sign up for HN, we can upvote all our favorite articles and it will be HN material because a lot of us voted for it? The problem with that definition is that there's no "entry exam" or anything like that.
- tlrobinson 15y agoI wouldn't consider that "legitimately voted onto the front page". Moderators would step in and remove it.
- ristretto 15y agoIt should have been buried by the ops. Most people don't come here to read such things, so you waste their time. What's more, the audience is not exactly sympathetic to sentimental pieces so it's bound to be treated harshly.