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Oh I don't agree with the article at all. I personally don't think the author understands the way economies work but still thought it was an entertaining read t
by dangoldin 18y ago
Oh I don't agree with the article at all. I personally don't think the author understands the way economies work but still thought it was an entertaining read that can hopefully get some debate going.
- davidw 18y agoSo ... submit it to reddit, or somewhere else appropriate for these kinds of discussions?
- run4yourlives 18y agoAgreed - this is blatantly off topic.
- dangoldin 18y agoI prefer the discussions here. The same topics will have different discussions depending on where they are introduced. Submitting to reddit won't give you the same result.
- davidw 18y agoOnce upon a time, submitting it to reddit would have produced a fine discussion. The problem, however, is that this sort of article is what attracts people who only want to discuss this sort of article, rather than, say, Hacker News. That's what happened to reddit. Since it's a lot easier to dig up articles on batty economics (or even good economics, for that matter), those topics can very easily crowd out the 'on topic' stuff.
- dangoldin 18y agoYou're probably right in that regard. But then if you can't go to reddit and you can't go to HN, where do you go?
- davidw 18y agoI'm sympathetic to the desire to talk about a broader range of topics with the bright people that inhabit this site, but don't have an answer. I don't think "how to have an intelligent, civil, wide-ranging and long-lasting on line forum" is an easy problem to solve, either. This forum works, in part, because its scope is somewhat limited.
- dangoldin 18y agoYea. I don't have an answer. The only solution seems to be to just be more selective in what you post. Non strictly hacker articles can be submitted but not too often.
- ars 18y agoThis site was the attempt to be exactly that: http://nonhackernews.com/ http://nonhackernews.com/ but it doesn't seem like it ever reached critical mass.