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I'm not the parent, but I heard about HN recently through a friend. I've got an account that is my real name, I just don't use it for non-startup related commen
by heartbreak 14y ago
I'm not the parent, but I heard about HN recently through a friend. I've got an account that is my real name, I just don't use it for non-startup related comments/submissions.
Why wouldn't new users want to participate here? HN has a fantastic community. What isn't there to like?
- teach 14y agoI'm not sure I'd want new users to participate. I'd want them to lurk for a while (a few weeks or months) to learn the standards of the community before "contributing". If the average new user just started doing what they do on other similar sites, HN wouldn't be a "fantastic community" for long.
- heartbreak 14y agoI would argue that simply reading the guidelines page would be sufficient in order to properly assimilate a new user into the community, wouldn't you? After a day or two of reading the comments, I had a pretty good idea of what the standards of the community were.