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Already posted [0] and was killed [1]. I'd love to see this thread albeit less frequent (once or maybe twice in a month). Let people give crazy ideas, and let

by kr4 12y ago

Already posted [0] and was killed [1]. I'd love to see this thread albeit less frequent (once or maybe twice in a month). Let people give crazy ideas, and let other be motivated to build maybe one of those. I found interesting and intellectually stimulating discussions happening around some of the ideas posted on these threads which IMO alighn with the core vision of HN. 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640

DanBC 12y ago
I would really like a specific account to post one of these threads once per month. I am surprised that people post them themselves, and don't appear to be checking for other threads posted the same day.
- livestyle 12y ago
  I did check. Just didn't see it. My bad.
neuralk 12y ago
It seems the two issues are: - people rushing to make an Idea Sunday thread/post at midnight - people unable to find the main Idea Sunday thread The former issue can be solved by having the whoishiring bot post Idea Sunday, and the latter can be solved by having the post "stickied" to the top of HN. I don't mean at position 1, but at an unnumbered position above that (I realize this is a may seem antithetic to some HNers, but most forums have this ability). That way it can act like an announcement thread; no one will miss it since its at the top, and no one will race to make it first since only whoishiring can post it. An additional benefit would be that future "Who is hiring?" posts could also be posted in the same place, so everyone can find it more easily. All told, I've really enjoyed the Idea Sunday posts, so I hope dang will rethink cancelling the experiment. As to the point that they are growing less interesting with regularity, I think a monthly or twice-monthly post may make more sense than a weekly one.
27182818284 12y ago
I actually hope it does get killed, or officially sanctioned, but what I don't want are three versions of Idea Sunday, two versions of Fail Faster Friday, et cetera, polluting HN.

by kr4 12y ago

DanBC 12y ago

I would really like a specific account to post one of these threads once per month. I am surprised that people post them themselves, and don't appear to be checking for other threads posted the same day.

livestyle 12y ago
I did check. Just didn't see it. My bad.

neuralk 12y ago

It seems the two issues are: - people rushing to make an Idea Sunday thread/post at midnight - people unable to find the main Idea Sunday thread The former issue can be solved by having the whoishiring bot post Idea Sunday, and the latter can be solved by having the post "stickied" to the top of HN. I don't mean at position 1, but at an unnumbered position above that (I realize this is a may seem antithetic to some HNers, but most forums have this ability). That way it can act like an announcement thread; no one will miss it since its at the top, and no one will race to make it first since only whoishiring can post it. An additional benefit would be that future "Who is hiring?" posts could also be posted in the same place, so everyone can find it more easily. All told, I've really enjoyed the Idea Sunday posts, so I hope dang will rethink cancelling the experiment. As to the point that they are growing less interesting with regularity, I think a monthly or twice-monthly post may make more sense than a weekly one.

27182818284 12y ago

I actually hope it does get killed, or officially sanctioned, but what I don't want are three versions of Idea Sunday, two versions of Fail Faster Friday, et cetera, polluting HN.