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Don't know why you are downvoted as I am too unclear what this thing is doing on top of HN.
by huhtenberg 14y ago
Don't know why you are downvoted as I am too unclear what this thing is doing on top of HN.
- davidw 14y agoI don't care about downvotes. Karma to me is only useful in that it allows me to say things that aren't popular occasionally.
- markyc 14y agoIt's because with size, HN is getting more stuffed up with fluffy common interest news, which get upvoted by the "late comers". sadly, it's the price of popularity.. maybe a reddit style h/startups h/misc h/programming h/design is in order?
- _delirium 14y agoI don't think in this case it's purely due to being random common-interest news, but due to being something Neil Gaiman, a popular figure in geek culture, posted on his blog. You see similar things when a well-known tech or geek-culture figure posts something about economics or politics on his/her blog.
- nandemo 14y agoThis post also appears at the top of the classic view, so I don't think "late comers" are to blame. http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic