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I personally think that most of that off-topic content that you mentioned sucks to have here (even if I do enjoy it elsewhere) Exactly. It's not about if it's

I personally think that most of that off-topic content that you mentioned sucks to have here (even if I do enjoy it elsewhere) Exactly. It's not about if it's interesting to you... It is if it's interesting AND fits the purpose of HN.

Zev 15y ago
The equation is: I liked this story + I like to think of myself as a hacker + Hacker Hews is for hackers[1] = I'm going to post this on Hacker News Or, in the reduced form[2]: I found this interesting + I think this article would make other people think about this topic after reading it = I'm going to post this on Hacker News Hacker News was previously called Startup News -- if you were around before July '07-ish. That was changed when the site was only a few months old. And you're kidding yourself if you don't think that HN changed since then. Maybe the next step is Amalgamated News? Who knows. To be honest? I doubt even pg knows for sure. 1. For whichever of the multitude of definitions of the word you prefer to use 2. From the guidelines: "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Emphasis mine.