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I tend to agree, usually when I see these polls I think of them as feeling out the community's opinion rather then 'let's take a vote and pressure pg to follow
by kgermino 14y ago
I tend to agree, usually when I see these polls I think of them as feeling out the community's opinion rather then 'let's take a vote and pressure pg to follow the result'
Especially since I think pg doesn't particularly care about most people's opinion on this (nor should he)
- brudgers 14y agoI don't think meta discussion of HN mechanics is typically productive or helpful, because the mechanics are not controllable by those discussing it, e.g. displaying comment scores.
- kgermino 14y agoThat's fair. I guess my counter argument would be that it's a problem when meta on a different thread, or when there are more than 1 or 2 meta threads a week. Otherwise they are easy to avoid and infrequent enough that meta threads don't crowd out more legitimate ones.