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It's strange to me that you are comparing HN to traditional media. Mostly* the editors of Hacker News are readers. The readers choose what they want to read. Th
by ahoyhere 14y ago
It's strange to me that you are comparing HN to traditional media. Mostly* the editors of Hacker News are readers. The readers choose what they want to read. The readers have spoken. It's too bad you disagree with the people who voted it up, but there's no point in quarreling with the format of HN itself.
* there's quite a bit of anecdotal evidence that moderators killfile individual articles, and we all know certain sites are fully blocked
- chrisrhoden 14y agoI don't disagree with you. Please look at what I was replying to. Saying, "because it's a good story," doesn't address the question that this thread started with. And the format of HN is very, very clear. Don't try to pretend that it is meant to be one's sole source of news.
- mattsfrey 14y agoI feel the article has no business here as well, but as it is this format is fairly democratic and majority rules. If a mod were to kill it many would be upset and claim overreach, especially since it's popular. Knowing that if it's both irrelevant AND unpopular it will get downvoted to oblivion is about as good as it gets. People will always have their gripes, have to compromise somewhere