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I don't think I've ever seen a story get so many points so fast :D

• gamache 18y ago
  And it continues. Is this legitimate?
  • haasted 18y ago
    It's by request http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 .
    • gamache 18y ago
      Ah, gotcha. The Cult of Paul strikes.
      • biohacker42 18y ago
        The Cult of Paul or the legitimate desire of us old timers to keep this site from turning into just another reddit. I just up voted all the Erlang articles and it has nothing to with pg. (I also happen to genuinely like Erlang)
        • dschobel 18y ago
          Sure it keeps the drive by visitors from staying, but it makes HN useless (unless you _really_ _really_ like Erlang) for the next few days. There has to be a better way to control the audience than intentionally ruining the content.
          • biohacker42 18y ago
            First of all, Erlang is something very much worth learning about. Second, it will only be this way for a short while. As you grow older your attention span will natural grow, don't worry about it kiddo.
            • dschobel 18y ago
              Whether Erlang is worth learning about is entirely beside the point. The issue is whether it's worth sand-bagging the content for everybody on the tenuous theory that Erlang repulses "the wrong kind of people for HN". Simply, it gets annoying when pg turn HN back into social-experiment mode. Your second sentence is ad-hominem idiocy and doesn't merit a response.
        • rm999 18y ago
          "keep this site from turning into just another reddit" Why, because reddit has a wide variety of interesting links on its front page instead of a page full of Erlang links?
          • biohacker42 18y ago
            Then why are you here? Honestly, if you enjoy reddit, why waste your time here? Reddit is bigger, more diverse and customizable.
            • rm999 18y ago
              "Then why are you here?" Well, I did remove the hackernews rss feed from my homepage today. I generally like this site, but I find the comments to be on the verge of elitist. I think it's sad that you guys think I'm part of the "riff raff" that needs to be filtered from sites like this, but congrats, you guys filtered me out.
              • swombat 18y ago
                HN is a community of human beings. Human beings are prone to do apparently temporarily insane/irrational things such as follow memes, jokes, silly suggestions, etc. If you dislike that here, I'm sorry but you probably won't find it any better anywhere else...
              • biohacker42 18y ago
                Cool, the comments are bit elitist for you, they're great for me. Reddit is a better fit for you. HN for me, everybody wins! Hurray!
        • gamache 18y ago
          1. If you upvoted all the Erlang articles yesterday, it has something to do with pg. I like Erlang too, but much of what made it to the front page was bullshit. 2. A day's worth of Erlang madness will do nothing for HN other than squash a day's worth of the usual stories. And when a few hundred users mass-upvote a few dozen stories for no other reason than that pg half-joked about it, I'd say that has more Reddit-nature than HN-nature.
    • jimbokun 18y ago
      I am in total agreement that all of these "boring" stories are far more interesting than most of the interesting stories have been. Er, I think that makes sense. Anyhow, maybe now we can pick a Language of the Day, or some other geeky topic to vote up on the front page each day of the week? Maybe C Efficiency Hacks, or Interesting Uses of Graph Algorithms, or ...
      • swombat 18y ago
        You don't need to pick. A weird unstable combination of the internet and the community on this site will do the picking for you. Furthermore, it will pick 29 other topics to fill your front page. Isn't that amazing?