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I do, and I find it fascinating that HN is somewhat a victim of its own success in terms of churn. As a reader its disorienting to see things in the New pages a
by nonrandomstring 5y ago
I do, and I find it fascinating that HN is somewhat a victim of its
own success in terms of churn. As a reader its disorienting to see
things in the New pages and be unable to find them 5 minutes later.
After reading HN for years I only created an account recently,
shamelessly because I wanted to submit things related to work I am
doing.
But the fire-hose of submissions means that links to articles, results
and papers I'd like to share just get swept downstream in minutes. It
actually makes one feel a bit paranoid, that there's a "conspiracy of
suppression" against challenging ideas going on here. I don't
seriously think that, rather that there's just too much competition
for attention, and too little real attention being given.
Where does that leave us? It's discouraging for researchers and
authors who would like feedback from a more general audience to submit
here. There is a temptation to be an asshole and repeatedly submit
materials until they gain traction, but that just feels cheap and
anti-social. Meanwhile the same old popular stories that are
circulating on other tech/hacker sites seem to get recirculated
ad-nauseum. This lowers the quality and perception of a community of
ideas that HN has enjoyed.
Something needs doing to rate limit and filter the input here. But I
don't know what. Probably what is good for researchers like me is bad
for some other group of interests. However you cut it there's a kinda
tragedy of the commons going on where low attention is creating too
much velocity and shallowness.