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I’m not commenting on your theory, but what I love about HN is that, for the most part, people comment purely to talk about a topic. There’s very little self pr
by rcme 3y ago
I’m not commenting on your theory, but what I love about HN is that, for the most part, people comment purely to talk about a topic. There’s very little self promotion. It’s very nice.
- pdntspa 3y agoUnless you're posting a show HN, in which case every brother and their mother chimes in with "this is nice but here's my cloud service that does a similar thing but better" sideswipes
- wruza 3y agoPersonally I find this useful, because it’s rarely just a pitch (at least I tend to assume some degree of honesty from an active HN user). Also it allows to explore a subject area even if you’re not interested right now. I often make bookmarks or simply threadshots of other products people talk about in show hns.
- rewmie 3y ago> Unless you're posting a show HN, in which case every brother and their mother chimes in with "this is nice but here's my cloud service that does a similar thing but better" sideswipes. I don't understand why you are classifying as "sideswipes" posts in a "Show HN" where others chime in to "Show HN". I mean, "Show HN" is about showing and discussing stuff, not a pulpit to worship a submitter.
- rchaud 3y agoYeah but Ask HN is clearly marked. I don't have to click it if I don't want to see self promo stuff. With social networks, you don't get a choice at all, just an endless, unpredictable feed.
- bodge5000 3y agoI seem to remember someone saying on here that if you're looking for suggestions on something, the best thing to do is put up a half baked version of your own and watch as swarms of people come in to talk about their version. I guess it tracks as well, in general on the internet I find you get better advice claiming something is the case and then getting corrected than just asking for advice
- Forgeties79 3y agoBasically a variation of “the quickest way to get the correct answer on the internet is to confidently assert the wrong one.”
- gnicholas 3y agoI have mixed feelings about this. From the perspective of the HN audience, it's useful to see what other startups are serving a particular need/niche. From the perspective of the poster of the Show HN, this is probably annoying. However, it is at least marginally useful to see what the competition looks like, so you can figure out how to differentiate your product (or whether there are too many free competitors, and you should give up).
- throwaway675309 3y agoAs long as it's done in relatively good faith, I'm not entirely opposed to this sort of thing. I'm especially OK with this if the OP is presenting their product as if it's the first of its kind.
- chaosbolt 3y ago[flagged]
- oneeyedpigeon 3y agoI'm 44 and I remember back when politics was more or less left out of hacker news altogether. Noone cared about your libertarian values or my progressive ones, everyone just talked about tech.
- lacrimacida 3y agoHN is one of the most stable platforms for discussion though. Sure, new influxes of users has brought different colors to the community but mostly people continue to discuss various topics, from philosphy to science or personal anecdotes. It continues to be a treasure’s trove of wisdom.
- rewmie 3y ago> I'm 44 and I remember back when politics was more or less left out of hacker news altogether. Politics is still more or less left out of hacker news. How many politics-related posts fo you see daily on HN? Zero?
- zdragnar 3y agoI've flagged a few myself. More frequently than posts, though, are politically charged comments. There's not a lot of thoughtful debate around them, mostly just people repeating the same tired points back and forth.
- foldr 3y agoThat’s what it feels like if you’re not interested in politics. A lot of the threads on programming also consist of people repeatedly making the same points back and forth (see e.g. about 5000 threads on Go and generics). Most discussions are like this, really. New ideas don’t come along very often.
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- hospitalJail 3y agoEh, the big name corps/marketers/astroturfers are so good, its impossible to notice them. Especially as HN mods made it a bannable offense to call it out.
- roarcher 3y agoThey banned it because that sort of call out is meaningless in an age when everyone accuses everyone they disagree with of being a "shill", "astroturfer", "troll", "fake news", and what have you.