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Just to be clear, intentionally not responding, since you repeatedly in my opinion ignored my points and contrary to your claims, did not engage me out of intel
by O__________O 4y ago
Just to be clear, intentionally not responding, since you repeatedly in my opinion ignored my points and contrary to your claims, did not engage me out of intellectual curiosity.
- threatofrain 4y agoI think tptacek is saying something meaningful in suggesting that there's already a long history to this discussion. Personally I disagree that the soul of HN is about curiosity. If you removed all the explicit comments about curiosity and showed the site to new tech people, I don't think there would be consensus on curiosity. If you showed a bunch of people the Rust subreddit, there would be consensus that it's soul is Rust. Personally I see this site as the Reddit of tech with 20% of its flavor coming from YC companies. That is how it behaves, as opposed what moderators say the site is about.
- pvg 4y ago'curious conversation' is a much loftier, woolier and syntheticier goal than 'Rust' and HN strives towards it imperfectly. The measure, though, is 'does this or that change bring us closer to it' not 'can people unfamiliar with the site achieve mindmeld with dang by staring at the front page'.