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I wholeheartedly agree. At the same time, there’s a slippery slope that the moderators responsible for the site have to balance. Banning Rust for example, woul
by adenozine 4y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. At the same time, there’s a slippery slope that the moderators responsible for the site have to balance.
Banning Rust for example, would be a massive improvement for the overall quality of the site but would deter a lot of conversations and site traffic. HN is an important part of making sure that YC companies have built-in exposure and marketing by using the site to ensure that a lot of people will see certain posts. In this same way, Tailscale is important to saturate the audience with, recently.
I don’t envy the job, however poorly I think it might be being done. It’s like being a world leader or something. It’d be miserably stressful for most people who complain about it, but absolutely catastrophic if they tried themselves. Someone has to do it, at the end of the day.
- spapas82 4y agoI definitely agree about the amount of Rust posts however consider that Rust is an open source programming language, not a commercial product like Tailscale. Tailscale posts is like free advertising to the Tailscale company. There's a whole community behind Rust that would benefit from these posts, and not a single company.
- Operyl 4y agoThis is a slippery slope, the entire client is open source (besides some GUI bits for macOS/iOS/windows). Do we ban GitLab for more than once per month because it’s also commercial? What about SQLite?