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fail to gratify intellectual curiosity At stake here are the 2 functions that HN serves: 1. a front page for the HN readership, and 2. an electronic town-hall.
by ky3 12y ago
fail to gratify intellectual curiosity
At stake here are the 2 functions that HN serves: 1. a front page for the HN readership, and 2. an electronic town-hall.
Consider that the town-hall service to the community is how HN got where it did today.
It's one thing to rein in repetitious bunkum, it's quite another for the Chair to say, "bah, I find this so boring" if you allow me caricaturizing license.
- dang 12y agoThe only part of this that I really disagree with is the "At stake here". That suggests that there's some danger of destroying one of those things, as if we're unaware of or don't value it. But of course we do. There's no question of suppressing discussion or of thwarting the community from talking about something that it cares about. The issue is one of balance, and it's a purely pragmatic one. If someone can suggest a better way, we're all ears.
- ky3 12y agoThe "At stake here" borrows from judicial writing, where disinterested parties offer an analysis that would cut the gordion knot of obscuring details. It's short for, "This is really what the debate is about, isn't it?" From your comment, I gather that HN moderators feel a bit high-strung over the faintest accusation of censorship. At stake here, I suppose, is PG's reputation, which I'm generally indifferent about. An upstanding citizen of the tech community he is, nothing less, nothing more.