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I hate this attitude, and it's prevalent all over HN. What makes you so special? Because you simply found this site before someone else? I imagine there are

I hate this attitude, and it's prevalent all over HN. What makes you so special? Because you simply found this site before someone else? I imagine there are plenty of brilliant and interesting people on the internet that are not aware of HN, but could contribute nicely if they became members here. This "age elitism" issue is wearying. It happens in other places too (SomethingAwful, for example, went through a hilariously horrible period where the year you registered was the most important part of your post). But this is supposedly an intellectual forum, not a comedy forum. Grow up and stop thinking the number of days since joining makes you better than someone else. (Yes, I joined after you. I am also diluting this forum. Get off my lawn.)

jacques_chester 14y ago
When I first got here, people were complaining about the new guys. I only seem "old"-ish because I joined to make a comment like 3 (edit: actually 4, crikey) years ago and then didn't come back until this year. My problem is not the new guy. It's that he says he found non-HN readers and, in so many words, said "fill up their page with stuff". He didn't say "join HN and hang around for a while". He said: "Get your page on the top of HN". Those aren't the same things.
- polyfractal 14y ago
  > He didn't say "join HN and hang around for a while". > He said: "Get your page on the top of HN". Fair enough, I see what you are saying. Sorry for the rant, it's early and the coffee is still settling in. =)
  - jacques_chester 14y ago
    Perfectly understandable. In text I frequently convey an air of breathtaking arrogance (in person only occasionally so).
benologist 14y ago
I think age is the wrong metric, you're right registering before someone doesn't mean jack. What does mean something is intent, and telling people how to exploit HN brings in people intending to ... exploit HN! It's a shitty trend and it's why we get so much generic-startup-story garbage from startups who've decided to make us their studio audience.

jacques_chester 14y ago

When I first got here, people were complaining about the new guys. I only seem "old"-ish because I joined to make a comment like 3 (edit: actually 4, crikey) years ago and then didn't come back until this year. My problem is not the new guy. It's that he says he found non-HN readers and, in so many words, said "fill up their page with stuff". He didn't say "join HN and hang around for a while". He said: "Get your page on the top of HN". Those aren't the same things.

polyfractal 14y ago
> He didn't say "join HN and hang around for a while". > He said: "Get your page on the top of HN". Fair enough, I see what you are saying. Sorry for the rant, it's early and the coffee is still settling in. =)
- jacques_chester 14y ago
  Perfectly understandable. In text I frequently convey an air of breathtaking arrogance (in person only occasionally so).

benologist 14y ago

I think age is the wrong metric, you're right registering before someone doesn't mean jack. What does mean something is intent, and telling people how to exploit HN brings in people intending to ... exploit HN! It's a shitty trend and it's why we get so much generic-startup-story garbage from startups who've decided to make us their studio audience.