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Let's face it; the submissions guidelines are a joke due to the first line: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. No matter the topic
by xtrumanx 12y ago
Let's face it; the submissions guidelines are a joke due to the first line:
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
No matter the topic, anyone can bring up that line and effectively ends any question that the topic is fit for HN by claiming that they find it interesting.
- Udo 12y agoEverything becomes a joke if you disrespect it enough. You have to make a conscious decision to add value instead of subtracting it.
- dang 12y agoCan't agree with you there. The guidelines make it clear that "interesting" means intellectually interesting. That excludes many other kinds of interesting, like celebrity gossip and more-heat-than-light politics. The criteria may not be algorithmic but they're not arbitrary either.