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Hacker News
by ananthrk 17y ago
Hacker News
- noor420 17y agoI would pay upto $100/year for HackerNews.
- ErrantX 17y agois the content that valuable and irreplacable to you? I'd argue that HN is a prime candidate for spawning equally good alternatives were it (hypothetically) pay for.
- icey 17y agoIt's not the content, it's the community.
- ananthrk 17y agoHm..I would say both. A good community encourages good content (and discourages bad content). Having said that, the real content of HN is, ofcourse, the discussions!
- mahmud 17y agoPG married hacker culture with "crass" commercialism, empowering capable people everywhere. Before this "scene", hackers talked about "PHBs" and "cow-orkers"; working for The Man was a necessary evil that everyone had to put up with, witness the talented but bored BoFH, who LARTs lusers and generally channels his unhappiness with work through mischief and abuse. Nowadays "lusers" are hackers' best friend, we're busy finding solutions to better their lives and improve our economic situation at the same time. Colleagues are peers, hand picked and chosen by us. It's a true meritocracy. I would pay for HN (with the option to ban Tech Crunch posts and other fluff mongers, at least until the official launch date of my startup ;-)
- bendotc 17y agoI prefer the SomethingAwful forum model: start out free, start charging a one-time $10 fee for new memberships, and then be liberal about banning people (who can pay another $10 to become unbanned). There are other premium options available for other one-time charges. Being able to moderate in a way that costs someone $10 can really help reign in the more destructive members of the community. There are people who keep resubscribing, but they subsidize the site for everyone else as they get banned over and over.