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Agreed. However, though HN does have a certain cultural cohesion, when it comes to "what is intellectual gratifying" people seem to differ a lot. Case in point
by nandemo 18y ago
Agreed. However, though HN does have a certain cultural cohesion, when it comes to "what is intellectual gratifying" people seem to differ a lot.
Case in point: for me whatever TS Eliot has written -- even an old forgotten letter -- is bound to be more interesting than any Coding Horror post (and it's not like I'm particularly crazy about TS Eliot). But the Coding Horror posts not only appear regularly on the front page, they are voted up higher than posts like Eliot's.
- jemmons 18y agoI think the point is that we're not talking about gratifying your intellectual curiosity or my intellectual curiosity, but one's intellectual curiosity. I literally groan out loud every time I see a Coding Horror story on the front page, but even I will admit it has a chance of satiating someone's needs vis a vis their own curiosity. Note that joke and pranks, being fictitious by their very nature, are incapable of even a Coding Horror level of edification. Thus, it is my opinion they should be relegated to the bin of "off-topic" subjects.