3 ms·

Corbet repeatedly used the word “occasionally,” sometimes even with emphasis. What I’m saying is that the current situation is that most of the for-pay content

by nequo 4y ago

Corbet repeatedly used the word “occasionally,” sometimes even with emphasis. What I’m saying is that the current situation is that most of the for-pay content of LWN is available on HN which is at odds either with his wish that it be occasional or with my understanding of English.

dredmorbius 4y ago
Most of those submissions die in the queue. I'd set a 20-comment limit to the search I presented for a reason. At present, the 30 results shown go back over 7 months. That's roughly a significant submission per week. Contrasting a search for "lwn.net" alone in submissions, the first page of results (sorted by date, again, 30 results) only goes back 3 weeks (22 days). But most of those get little activity --- some upvotes, and a few with many comments, but, in a third search sorted by popularity over the past month, <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=true&query=lwn.net%20&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...> Ten of those meet or beat my 20-comment threshold, 20 don't. And note that 20 comments isn't especially significant, 4 submissions exceed 100 comments. lwn SubscriberLink & > 20 comments, by date: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=lwn.net%2FSubscriberLink%2F%20comments%3E20&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> All "lwn.net" for past month: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=true&query=lwn.net%20&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...> Data: Comments: 189 94 155 254 153 29 46 10 14 20 13 12 89 10 21 1 8 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 Points: 306 271 254 240 166 114 109 89 62 58 53 45 42 39 37 30 20 7 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 I'm not saying that the concern doesn't exist. But ultimately, it's LWN's to address. The constant admonishments to not share links seem to fall into tangential annoyances and generic tangents, both against HN guidelines: <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html> I'd suggest leaving this to Corbet and dang.

by nequo 4y ago

dredmorbius 4y ago

Most of those submissions die in the queue. I'd set a 20-comment limit to the search I presented for a reason. At present, the 30 results shown go back over 7 months. That's roughly a significant submission per week. Contrasting a search for "lwn.net" alone in submissions, the first page of results (sorted by date, again, 30 results) only goes back 3 weeks (22 days). But most of those get little activity --- some upvotes, and a few with many comments, but, in a third search sorted by popularity over the past month, <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=true&query=lwn.net%20&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...> Ten of those meet or beat my 20-comment threshold, 20 don't. And note that 20 comments isn't especially significant, 4 submissions exceed 100 comments. lwn SubscriberLink & > 20 comments, by date: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=lwn.net%2FSubscriberLink%2F%20comments%3E20&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> All "lwn.net" for past month: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=true&query=lwn.net%20&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...> Data: Comments: 189 94 155 254 153 29 46 10 14 20 13 12 89 10 21 1 8 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 Points: 306 271 254 240 166 114 109 89 62 58 53 45 42 39 37 30 20 7 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 I'm not saying that the concern doesn't exist. But ultimately, it's LWN's to address. The constant admonishments to not share links seem to fall into tangential annoyances and generic tangents, both against HN guidelines: <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html> I'd suggest leaving this to Corbet and dang.