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Who gives a fuck about upvotes? A guy who was special to a lot of people is dead, give the bullshit a rest.

ColinWright 14y ago
Let me start by saying that Sendak's work was a large part of my childhood and he was special to me too. I wanted to reply privately, by you don't have contact details in your profile, so I'll have to reply to you here ... You may find this hard to believe, but I really don't care about the upvotes. What I care about is this. An article that the general HN community seems to care about had to get submitted three times (at least - there may have been others) and endure flags and indifference before it got noticed and promoted to everyone's attention. It nearly got lost. To me, that's evidence that good items, items I care about, other items that "the HN community" cares about, items that you would care about, are now being lost in the noise. And that's my point, that HN is in some sense "broken," and items like this, about someone who was special to me, and to others, get lost. I hope that helps explain my point. If not, <fx:shrug> I tried. Added in edit: I've had several out-of-band replies from people who clearly feel the way I do about this, so despite the downvotes here expressing disagreement, I feel encouraged that my feeling that HN is "broken" in this sense is shared by others.
- swordswinger12 14y ago
  I don't disbelieve you, but the way you phrased your original post gave me pause. You wrote 5-6 sentences comparing the different submissions, making special mention that yours didn't gain much traction, then you added a perfunctory-seeming Sendak tribute in the last sentence.
  - ColinWright 14y ago
    Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps I should have said "This was submitted ..." rather than "I submitted ..." but that just sounds ingenuous, especially if someone then follows the link and sees it was me. And to some extent it wasn't just the lack of traction. My interests don't exactly align with the majority here, so many of my submissions don't get traction. That I really don't care about. It was the flags, coupled with the obvious "success" of this item that makes me think the voting, karma, and ranking system(s) on HN is/are broken. In this case I mostly noticed because it was my submission and I was paying attention. How much else is there that I care about but never get to see because of these things.

Let me start by saying that Sendak's work was a large part of my childhood and he was special to me too. I wanted to reply privately, by you don't have contact details in your profile, so I'll have to reply to you here ... You may find this hard to believe, but I really don't care about the upvotes. What I care about is this. An article that the general HN community seems to care about had to get submitted three times (at least - there may have been others) and endure flags and indifference before it got noticed and promoted to everyone's attention. It nearly got lost. To me, that's evidence that good items, items I care about, other items that "the HN community" cares about, items that you would care about, are now being lost in the noise. And that's my point, that HN is in some sense "broken," and items like this, about someone who was special to me, and to others, get lost. I hope that helps explain my point. If not, <fx:shrug> I tried. Added in edit: I've had several out-of-band replies from people who clearly feel the way I do about this, so despite the downvotes here expressing disagreement, I feel encouraged that my feeling that HN is "broken" in this sense is shared by others.

swordswinger12 14y ago
I don't disbelieve you, but the way you phrased your original post gave me pause. You wrote 5-6 sentences comparing the different submissions, making special mention that yours didn't gain much traction, then you added a perfunctory-seeming Sendak tribute in the last sentence.
- ColinWright 14y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps I should have said "This was submitted ..." rather than "I submitted ..." but that just sounds ingenuous, especially if someone then follows the link and sees it was me. And to some extent it wasn't just the lack of traction. My interests don't exactly align with the majority here, so many of my submissions don't get traction. That I really don't care about. It was the flags, coupled with the obvious "success" of this item that makes me think the voting, karma, and ranking system(s) on HN is/are broken. In this case I mostly noticed because it was my submission and I was paying attention. How much else is there that I care about but never get to see because of these things.