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Am I the only person tired of seeing so many Wikipedia articles on Hacker News? (Currently there are two in the top 10 and there have been a bunch of others rec
by kens 13y ago
Am I the only person tired of seeing so many Wikipedia articles on Hacker News? (Currently there are two in the top 10 and there have been a bunch of others recently.)
Perhaps HN should apply a mild penalty to the wikipedia.org domain, the same as it does to many other sites such as stackexchange.com and theguardian.com.
(And yes I acknowledge the What to Submit guideline (HN:WTS) "Anything that good hackers would find interesting".)
- reeses 13y agoIt's lazy and I lost the "flag articles" bit hammering them. :) Just ignore them and scroll past.
- ronaldx 13y agoWhat would be a better source for this information? I am more likely to read a Wikipedia article than I am to read either marketing material or the same info incompletely rehashed into a more subjective blog post. I often find myself visiting Wikipedia for the real story behind HN links.
- zokier 13y agoThe thing plain wikipedia links lack is context. eg why is this relevant now, what is the angle here, why should I be interested in this etc
- StavrosK 13y agoI see it as "here's an interesting thing". I like it, most articles make for interesting reading.
- userulluipeste 13y agoWell, for one thing it's going into production this year (i.e. it's a real thing already). And ronaldx is right, Wikipedia material is worth more than the car's official webpage.
- zimbatm 13y agoAm I the only person tired of seeing complaints as the first comment on every post ? Especially the ones with the form "<vaguely nice comment> BUT <trashing the whole thing>".
- WetTowel 13y agoCertainly a nicer format that simply trashing the whole thing right out.