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There needs to be discussion on how to present the best way forward for this community. Holy smokes I've never been involved in a community that talks about th
by ScottWhigham 13y ago
There needs to be discussion on how to present the best way forward for this community.
Holy smokes I've never been involved in a community that talks about the need to talk as much as HN. I bet there are ten "Ask HN" posts a week whose main idea is that we should talk about our community and how we need to this or that.
The community will have its fair share of lunacy, unqualified posters, "me-too"ers, but that's what gives an online community breadth and depth. It gives a community character.
You haven't been here long - less than a year. This community had a character - a great character - for years. It's been in the last 2-3 years that it's lost most of that character. So to have newbies come here and say that we need x or y for "community character" is a bit laughable.
- kunai 13y agoJust because I hadn't signed up for an account until this January doesn't mean I haven't been lurking around here since 2009. The reason we need to have this talk is that we've never been given a chance to.
- ScottWhigham 13y agoI don't know how most people feel but my personal thoughts are that, if you are lurker, then you are not 'part of the community'. The reason we need to have this talk is that we've never been given a chance to. I don't even know how to talk intelligently to that statement. Who has stopped "us" from talking about it before? I was here before there were mods and after mods - are you saying that there are mods who hate change and will autokill/hellban anyone who tries to talk about what you are talking about? Or perhaps that pg himself is doing it? Sorry - you've lost me.