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Business submissions can dilute the front page. For example, take articles about the current economic environment (mergers, banks dying off) - they suck becaus
by comatose_kid 18y ago
Business submissions can dilute the front page. For example, take articles about the current economic environment (mergers, banks dying off) - they suck because:
1) You can read about that stuff everywhere right now (news.google, front of popular magazines).
2) It doesn't really help start my business as it provides little actionable advice.
3) Look at 1) again. I'm not interested in reading about current events on HN. Other sites do a better job of this, and that is not why I come here. Generally, if it appears on the front page of news.google.com, it shouldn't be on this site.
Of course I'm not against biz articles categorically, just the ones that meet the above criteria.
- raganwald 18y agoYou can read about that stuff everywhere right now (news.google, front of popular magazines). => The existing guidelines hint at this by suggesting that if you can find it on certain other sites, it explicitly doesn't belong here. It doesn't really help start my business as it provides little actionable advice. => Very insightful.