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No matter what, you'll always miss good stuff. For example, most of HN missed the great article by unalone: http://journal.rinich.com/post/249408496/god http:/

by RevRal 17y ago

No matter what, you'll always miss good stuff. For example, most of HN missed the great article by unalone: http://journal.rinich.com/post/249408496/god http://journal.rinich.com/post/249408496/god . Both of the submissions on the article were flagged, killed. I've been reading here for a very long time, but only recently signed up. I've always tried to ignore the amount of points a submission has. Instead: 1. Get to know the websites that consistently have good articles. 2. Find the users who submit good stuff. Click on people's profiles, and look at their karma. 3. Learn to recognize link bait. A lot of users try to use titles that aren't link bait. 4. When a submission looks questionable, click the user profile and see if they have good cred. Look at how long they've been a user and if they have good karma. If the user seems to have good cred, then bite the bullet and check out their submission as it is probably worthwhile. 5. Start up-voting submissions that you like. Get yourself involved. You'll get better at scanning through the submissions and getting to the good stuff quickly.

araneae 17y ago
I can see why it was killed. What a load of drivel... I mean, seriously, who ends a blog post with "[w]e’re in this together"?
- RevRal 17y ago
  Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned what I thought of the article, instead just said that it didn't deserve to get killed. I am a very discerning reader and the article resonated well with me. I'm glad I read it and I'm sure there are more people who would have enjoyed it. That's why I brought it up. It was killed before more people could have read it. The only reason I found my way to the article was because I'm also discerning on HN, using the five "tips" I outlined more than the points on submissions.
- unalone 17y ago
  I do. Since that post went up, I've received quite a few emails from people thanking me for that drivel, too. So I guess it's not drivel after all? If my goal was to write simplistic, overemoting drivel, I'd have namedropped Bukowski instead of Joyce.
  - araneae 17y ago
    No, your goal was to sound smart. It's cliche... just like saying "we're all in this together." I'll break your essay down for you. A) A section in which you say you hate small talk. You use this fact to claim that you are deep, because small talk is shallow. B) A section in which you talk about your love of James Joyce, an author that pretty much no one can read, in order to sound smart. C) A section in which you talk about how lonely you are, because you're emo. You are very sad and lonely because the girls you date like different music than you. D) The conclusion, in which you try but fail to connect the fact that you are a) deep, b) smart, and c) lonely, by saying that we're all in this together. wipes away a tear If this sounds harsh, I've spent all day grading essays, so I'm out of tolerance for bullshit.
    - RevRal 17y ago
      This is the sort of comment I would have liked to have seen in the submission about the article. Unfortunately, those submissions are dead. The recent article on Ribbon Farm might explain unalone's character: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/21/morality-compassion-and-the-sociopath/ http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/21/morality-compassion-and... . Maybe that's assuming too much.... I don't normally say things like this, but your analysis is wrong. I'm 22 years old, and I still haven't figured out how to respond to things like this. Your thought process is simply... wrong. It'd be like trying to explain something fundamental and simple. Something that people should just "get," and I'm just baffled when they don't. When they respond like this and completely miss out on something good. There's a certain dignity and standard that people like us hold ourselves to, and we resent those who don't. That's the point of "we're all in this together." We don't often meet people like us. And when we do... I don't know how to explain it. It's just great. Though he could have maybe picked better words... he didn't. It still communicates what he was trying to say. You have to look at things like this through a certain lens. It isn't published work. If he wanted to, he could edit it all day. It is on his personal website so he shouldn't have to. When I said I'm a discerning reader, and am discerning on HN... well, I'm discerning with everything. And it literally breaks my heart that almost everyone I meet is not like this. ---- Addendum: So unalone, what did you think of Circulatory System?
wglb 17y ago
Whether or not the referenced article is a great article, it is not the kind of article I look for to read on HN. I sometimes flag articles that might be otherwise good, but are misplaced on HN.

by RevRal 17y ago

araneae 17y ago

I can see why it was killed. What a load of drivel... I mean, seriously, who ends a blog post with "[w]e’re in this together"?

RevRal 17y ago
Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned what I thought of the article, instead just said that it didn't deserve to get killed. I am a very discerning reader and the article resonated well with me. I'm glad I read it and I'm sure there are more people who would have enjoyed it. That's why I brought it up. It was killed before more people could have read it. The only reason I found my way to the article was because I'm also discerning on HN, using the five "tips" I outlined more than the points on submissions.
unalone 17y ago
I do. Since that post went up, I've received quite a few emails from people thanking me for that drivel, too. So I guess it's not drivel after all? If my goal was to write simplistic, overemoting drivel, I'd have namedropped Bukowski instead of Joyce.
- araneae 17y ago
  No, your goal was to sound smart. It's cliche... just like saying "we're all in this together." I'll break your essay down for you. A) A section in which you say you hate small talk. You use this fact to claim that you are deep, because small talk is shallow. B) A section in which you talk about your love of James Joyce, an author that pretty much no one can read, in order to sound smart. C) A section in which you talk about how lonely you are, because you're emo. You are very sad and lonely because the girls you date like different music than you. D) The conclusion, in which you try but fail to connect the fact that you are a) deep, b) smart, and c) lonely, by saying that we're all in this together. wipes away a tear If this sounds harsh, I've spent all day grading essays, so I'm out of tolerance for bullshit.
  - RevRal 17y ago
    This is the sort of comment I would have liked to have seen in the submission about the article. Unfortunately, those submissions are dead. The recent article on Ribbon Farm might explain unalone's character: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/21/morality-compassion-and-the-sociopath/ http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/21/morality-compassion-and... . Maybe that's assuming too much.... I don't normally say things like this, but your analysis is wrong. I'm 22 years old, and I still haven't figured out how to respond to things like this. Your thought process is simply... wrong. It'd be like trying to explain something fundamental and simple. Something that people should just "get," and I'm just baffled when they don't. When they respond like this and completely miss out on something good. There's a certain dignity and standard that people like us hold ourselves to, and we resent those who don't. That's the point of "we're all in this together." We don't often meet people like us. And when we do... I don't know how to explain it. It's just great. Though he could have maybe picked better words... he didn't. It still communicates what he was trying to say. You have to look at things like this through a certain lens. It isn't published work. If he wanted to, he could edit it all day. It is on his personal website so he shouldn't have to. When I said I'm a discerning reader, and am discerning on HN... well, I'm discerning with everything. And it literally breaks my heart that almost everyone I meet is not like this. ---- Addendum: So unalone, what did you think of Circulatory System?

wglb 17y ago

Whether or not the referenced article is a great article, it is not the kind of article I look for to read on HN. I sometimes flag articles that might be otherwise good, but are misplaced on HN.