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What is your specific objection to the cryptocurrency feature of this site? Or are you just dogmatically anti-crypto for emotional reasons? If the latter, well

What is your specific objection to the cryptocurrency feature of this site? Or are you just dogmatically anti-crypto for emotional reasons? If the latter, well that's exactly what I was criticizing about HN ("it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto.") and so the site is probably not for you anyways. HN is better for anti-crypto. The ML stuff was just throwing some ideas out there for the future. Regarding the spam, apologies on that. I posted this before going to sleep, and woke up to see the spam. This is just a side project and I didn't implement any automated spam moderation yet or assign any mods.

sitkack 3y ago
I am often at dissonance with the HN hive mind and thus I find myself delighted by your post, I think it expands on what is out there. I think being able to reward post authors with something of value vs platform specific "coins" is excellent. People should be compensated for their work. I also think that ML can and will play an important role in intermediating human discussion. From preventing flamewars and personal attacks to detecting logical fallacies. Reddit isn't good, it is just the one of the best things we have right now in terms of audience and breadth of subject matter. It is basically AOL+Usenet without the advantages of Usenet. Having posts and tags doesn't make it a Reddit replacement, because a lot of what reddit is about is specific subs about a particular topic. Sure, you can find that hyperplane of folks that like the same tag, etc. But that doesn't seem to work. Lobsters [1] is also that HN/Reddit alternative and while it has a large subscriber count, it doesn't have the discussion volume. One of the biggest problems with all of sosh-meeds is that it is designed to a constant stream of ephemeral distractions to engage eyeballs to see ads. The static viewer, river of artifacts that we drop hot takes on for forum points is what needs to get replaced. I think you are on to something, but it looks more like a link aggregator with comments than a forum to build discussions around topics. https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/

sitkack 3y ago

I am often at dissonance with the HN hive mind and thus I find myself delighted by your post, I think it expands on what is out there. I think being able to reward post authors with something of value vs platform specific "coins" is excellent. People should be compensated for their work. I also think that ML can and will play an important role in intermediating human discussion. From preventing flamewars and personal attacks to detecting logical fallacies. Reddit isn't good, it is just the one of the best things we have right now in terms of audience and breadth of subject matter. It is basically AOL+Usenet without the advantages of Usenet. Having posts and tags doesn't make it a Reddit replacement, because a lot of what reddit is about is specific subs about a particular topic. Sure, you can find that hyperplane of folks that like the same tag, etc. But that doesn't seem to work. Lobsters [1] is also that HN/Reddit alternative and while it has a large subscriber count, it doesn't have the discussion volume. One of the biggest problems with all of sosh-meeds is that it is designed to a constant stream of ephemeral distractions to engage eyeballs to see ads. The static viewer, river of artifacts that we drop hot takes on for forum points is what needs to get replaced. I think you are on to something, but it looks more like a link aggregator with comments than a forum to build discussions around topics. https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/