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The top comment on that story explained why it was a dull, uninteresting story. Colin has very patiently reasoned with you about what may have happened (for th

The top comment on that story explained why it was a dull, uninteresting story. Colin has very patiently reasoned with you about what may have happened (for the record, I didn't flag that story, and I would never have visited it at all but for the question I'm seeing in this thread). There is no reason to be argumentative with Colin; he is just trying to help. I agree that lists of three-letter domains, or four-letter domains, with this or that top-level domain suffix make for dreadfully boring submissions. I think some people massively overestimate the usefulness of a cute domain name. Hacker News gets plenty of interest even with a domain name like news.ycombinator.com and other sites too have better eyeball-attraction value than their names might suggest.

mike_tan 14y ago
"Pointless hipster-TLD is pointless. Utterly pointless." So pointless that GitHub and codepen.io use them. edit: You edited your reply...
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mike_tan 14y ago
You edited your reply. > Colin has very patiently reasoned with you about what may have happened And I patiently reasoned back. It's a discussion. Yes, he has been somewhat helpful, but it doesn't explain how, a seemly increasing, number of submissions are disappearing from the front page. > I agree that lists of three-letter domains, or four-letter domains, with this or that top-level domain suffix make for dreadfully boring submissions People were voting it, people were using it to buy domains for projects. I don't read 100% of the stories on the front page either, but calling reasonable submissions out seems to be getting somewhat popular. Are you saying, objectively you can't see how that list is useful to anyone? Or is this about the submissions not being titillating enough?