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The trend of posting a page here based on some detail from a comment, that was posted in another thread ("What's that touchscreen in my room?" in this case) a f
by depr 3y ago
The trend of posting a page here based on some detail from a comment, that was posted in another thread ("What's that touchscreen in my room?" in this case) a few days ago, has become quite frequent and a bit annoying.
To everyone who wants to write: but I didn't read that thread and I find this quite interesting; you are free to find it interesting, but I did read about it 2 days ago and to me it looks like karma farming.
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- donio 3y agoRegarding the quality of posts in general the problem is not what gets posted, there is a ton of junk in the "new" queue and most of it never makes it to the front page. It's what gets upvoted.
- bitwize 3y agoWhy you gotta yuck other people's yum, man? To me it seems like Hackernews, as a whole, goes off on the same kinds of thought-tangents as I do, and that makes the site more interesting. And I was one of the commenters about Jazelle on the thread you mentioned.
- depr 3y agoBecause this is a community and I care about what goes on in it. I think this is precisely not a thought-tangent, it is taking the tangent that occurred elsewhere and posting an article about it to score internet points. If we keep doing that, this becomes even more of an echo chamber and a very boring place.
- lxgr 3y agoIt's exactly the opposite to me: I might not necessarily be interested in a box on someone's wall (even though I did enjoy that particular article) but at the same time be extremely interested in efficient mobile Java implementations with or without hardware support. Reposting that tangent as a separate submission increases the chance of me finding the conversation.
- depr 3y agoThen it would be great if the existing conversation could be posted instead, similar to what 'icegreentea2 suggested.
- pests 3y agoYou might be the only one concerned with internet points. Even so, why does it affect you so much to see other people getting these internet points? Or that they were somehow unearned? Who cares.
- depr 3y agoI think I've adequately explained what it is that bothers me about it, and it's not them getting points.
- czscout 3y agoNot everyone spends so much time on this site that they can easily spot a post as an extension of a related discussion elsewhere on the site. Someone posted this page, it got upvoted by others who found it interesting, and now it's on the front page. What's wrong with that?
- depr 3y agoPopular content is not necessarily good content (very boring to say this, but just look at reddit). And posting articles to get upvotes, which I'm not saying this post is necessarily doing but at least _some_ are doing, leads to lower quality. HN barely has any methods for maintaining overall quality of the website and it will automatically degrade as it gets larger. To simply allow these posts and having them hit the front page when they get upvotes is a valid position. But I think it contributes to a website that is less interesting. I don't think these posts should be removed, but they should at least be frowned upon, and/or linked to the original comment thread.
- icegreentea2 3y agoI think attribution would be nice. Both from a honesty standpoint, but also generally useful.