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The answer to your question now is the same whenever it has come up before: it is on the front page because HN readers voted it up and are discussing it.
by revscat 11y ago
The answer to your question now is the same whenever it has come up before: it is on the front page because HN readers voted it up and are discussing it.
- stephengillie 11y agoHow do we know that HN readers upvoted it, and not an upvote-bot-ring or other upvoting group? This really doesn't seem like the kind of article that should be on HN.
- cwyers 11y agoReddit isn't just "an Internet forum," it's a company that's received investment from Y Combinator (or at least people like sama who are heavily involved in Y Combinator). This site is hosted at news.ycombinator.com. Shockingly, people here are interested in articles about such things. In addition, technology does not exist in a vacuum. It's very, very possible to be interested in how people are actually using that technology, and the effect that the technology is having on people, both individually and in the larger context of community and society. This article definitely talks about those issues.
- stephengillie 11y agoRight, reddit is an internet forum with massive funding and leadership backing from some of the most connected people in existence. And so anything related to reddit is automatically interesting? Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum, and apparently anything even remotely tangentially connected to anything technological is HN front-page material.