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Which has a more professional ring to it,"Hacker News" or "Programmer News"? I would love it if there was an equivalent term for teachers such as "hacker", but
by japhyr 13y ago
Which has a more professional ring to it,"Hacker News" or "Programmer News"?
I would love it if there was an equivalent term for teachers such as "hacker", but I don't think there is. I want to avoid the traditional "teacher's lounge". If you've never been in one, they can be interesting places. It can be really difficult to have a professional conversation about teaching in a teacher's lounge. There tends to be an atmosphere of venting and releasing frustration over sharing professional ideas. I know that doesn't describe every teacher's lounge, but there are many that do fit that description.
I have looked, my entire career, for an online discussion forum for teachers that avoids this mindset. I haven't found one yet. So in trying to build one, I am looking for something that connotes a more professional mindset. I am also well aware that a name is just a name, and what matters is the actual community that I and the moderation team develop.
That's why it doesn't have ads and affiliate marketing or require an email address
This is an interesting issue. I am only thinking of requiring email registration to cut down on duplicate accounts by trolls. I have always assumed this feature of HN creates more spam. I know HN has some strong anti-voting ring, anti spam submission algorithms. Any thoughts about whether requiring email registration would make less work for these spam-fighting algorithms? Is no email required just to make it easier to sign up, or to intentionally allow anonymity?
I have no intention of emailing users other than for registration purposes; that said, it would be easier to skip email registration altogether.
- brudgers 13y agoHN works for a lot of reasons, among them is that when in doubt it's about Silicon Valley and when in doubt someone will say quit whining and build your idea of what perfection looks like. The focus on creation and a default set of means for creation and the carrot of vast wealth and a context of cleverness all work to attract people into the pool of potential YC participants. There's a business model at the bottom of it that asks nothing more than reasonable behavior from an individual HNer.. Why isn't HN the HN for education? Those reasons are why an HN for education won't be.