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IMO, an important part of HN culture that has allowed it to mostly avoid Eternal September is that this is not just a strict news site: old and well-known thing
by pavlov 3y ago
IMO, an important part of HN culture that has allowed it to mostly avoid Eternal September is that this is not just a strict news site: old and well-known things can be posted and discussed again, thus introducing them to the newer crowd without making them feel bad about not already knowing something.
- berkes 3y agoInteresting how you look at Eternal September from the newb's angle. As if "making them feel bad" (or unwelcome?) is the main problem of ES. I never looked at it that way. Always looked at it from the disgruntled Unix beard view that I have entrenched myself in. "get off my lawn". While also lamenting how new generations keep reinventing solutions that "we" have proven to not work decades ago. Or reinventing solutions to problems that have long been solved. When the solution is not to shout "get off my lawn" harder, but to go out there, with empathy, and help the newer generations find their way around in the history and practices of ICT and CompSci so they too can reach out to that experience and knowledge when confronted with a problem (rather than blindingly running towards a cliff that "we" the seniors fell off several times already)