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In this thread: People getting confused over what Hacker News is. We're not the OSDN. In fact we (as a collective group of users) are not related to the open s

In this thread: People getting confused over what Hacker News is. We're not the OSDN. In fact we (as a collective group of users) are not related to the open source movement in any way. Why should MS's closed-source viewpoint matter to us? Are we not here to build businesses in the tech space? Sometimes the right tool to use is made by Microsoft. Sometimes it's open source.

seanmcdirmid 13y ago
That wasn't the point: you don't have to upvote their articles to not flag them.
- lessnonymous 13y ago
  Which is kind of my point. Flagging stories just because you don't like Microsoft is counter to the site's purpose. Even downvoting because you don't like Microsoft doesn't improve the site. If I'm building something, and I'd benefit hugely from some Microsoft news, your disdain for the company has just hurt my project. Flag or downvote a cat picture. But not because you happen to dislike the camera the picture was taken on, but because cat pictures aren't relevant to the site.
  - seanmcdirmid 13y ago
    Then we are in agreement. Is it possible to downvote articles? Maybe I haven't reached that karma threshold yet.
    - lessnonymous 13y ago
      I dunno. I haven't either. :-D
gbog 13y ago
Don't forget the "Hacker" in Hacker news: it is very natural, reasonable, expected and even necessary for Hackers to have a strong and marked preference towards open protocols, open source software, and to dislike monopolies, walls, closedness, blind rule abiding, etcetera. A convoluted spirit might believe hackers like closed doors because they enjoy breaking in and would like more of them. But that is wrong, just as it is wrong to believe that physicians would love to have more deadly diseases to play with.
- general_failure 13y ago
  And yet we have apple stuff all over frontage when they are clearly against hackers
  - gbog 13y ago
    Yes, it worries me too, but it seems the tide retreats slowly.

seanmcdirmid 13y ago

That wasn't the point: you don't have to upvote their articles to not flag them.

lessnonymous 13y ago
Which is kind of my point. Flagging stories just because you don't like Microsoft is counter to the site's purpose. Even downvoting because you don't like Microsoft doesn't improve the site. If I'm building something, and I'd benefit hugely from some Microsoft news, your disdain for the company has just hurt my project. Flag or downvote a cat picture. But not because you happen to dislike the camera the picture was taken on, but because cat pictures aren't relevant to the site.
- seanmcdirmid 13y ago
  Then we are in agreement. Is it possible to downvote articles? Maybe I haven't reached that karma threshold yet.
  - lessnonymous 13y ago
    I dunno. I haven't either. :-D

gbog 13y ago

Don't forget the "Hacker" in Hacker news: it is very natural, reasonable, expected and even necessary for Hackers to have a strong and marked preference towards open protocols, open source software, and to dislike monopolies, walls, closedness, blind rule abiding, etcetera. A convoluted spirit might believe hackers like closed doors because they enjoy breaking in and would like more of them. But that is wrong, just as it is wrong to believe that physicians would love to have more deadly diseases to play with.

general_failure 13y ago
And yet we have apple stuff all over frontage when they are clearly against hackers
- gbog 13y ago
  Yes, it worries me too, but it seems the tide retreats slowly.