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Interesting. There are too many non-interesting, but pedantically correct comments that derail discussions. The community goal of an HN comment thread should b
by JoelSutherland 14y ago
Interesting.
There are too many non-interesting, but pedantically correct comments that derail discussions. The community goal of an HN comment thread should be to unearth the most interesting, useful aspects of the submitted content. Correct but non-interesting, non-contributing comments should be down-voted.
- drharris 14y agoI'd agree with this. I think too many people think HN should be startups or technology or whatever. But it's a community aggregator, with a community of voters deciding what matters. By definition, HN should be whatever it currently is. But I'd agree it should at least be interesting, if not also a tiny bit of entertaining.
- gruseom 14y agoBy definition, HN should be whatever it currently is Not so, there are norms: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.