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I don't know: HN is rapidly replacing my feed reader; and I think the news is interesting in its own right (may not have anything to do with "hacking", but stil

• pwmanagerdied 17y ago
  I think that there are reasons that this article should be here, but "but still" is a terrible one. That's the kind of attitude that causes sites to decline in quality like Digg and Reddit. Criteria have to be rigidly enforced or things will go to shit.
  • Confusion 17y ago
    Things go to shit when criteria are rigidly enforced. You can't define 'hacking' or 'entrepeneurship' and any set of criteria attempting to do so will require liberal interpretation to allow everything of interest. The result is necessarily that some stuff is not of interest. The only way to be sure everything is of interest, is by not allowing anything.
    • derefr 17y ago
      The shittiness of a social news site has nothing to do with the any sort of enforcement or criteria for a topic, or even having a topic at all. Rather, things go to shit on a social news site when the community is composed of people who can't (roughly) agree on what they like to read. To regurgitate an old adage I heard from a Dungeon Master: "It's not the game that's fun, it's the players." We're here to share links and talk about stuff, not to "post" and "comment", blind and deaf, into the void. As long as we all like one another, the site is good. When we attract a group of people we don't like as much, and those people attract people we don't like at all, then the site will suck, because those people won't be sharing and talking about the same things we want to share and talk about.