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by pvg 2y ago
You're welcome to agree with zfg's point and argue its merits. They certainly haven't so that might be an improvement. Dismissing mine as 'pulling rank' is just rude and lame. I've engaged with this person over
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by pvg 2y ago
I has a lot to do with the quality of your contribution if your contribution is telling others how the site works. It's complicated and full of written and unwritten conventions. It takes a while to figure out. Of course new users and
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by pvg 2y ago
There are two big ongoing discussions about the new administration's changes to government websites right now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367
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by pvg 2y ago
A thread on the pre-AI enterprise-capable variant from 2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34630409
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by pvg 2y ago
It only 'derails' anything if someone decides to pedantidunk on it. That's not conversation. The occasional flight of verbal fancy is, though. 'Calling out' completely mundane things about other people's commen
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by pvg 2y ago
Big thread a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42864272
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by pvg 2y ago
You've submitted 8 generic news articles just in the last 24 hours or so. Do you believe all of them should have had a separate discussion? That would be nearly one third of the HN front page. In that period there were at least two suc
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by pvg 2y ago
With no undue disrespect, you just got here. Might want to give it a bit of time so the working part makes more sense. You haven't as much as responded to anything written here beside repeating the same somewhat unclear and seemingly i
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by pvg 2y ago
I don't understand what that's supposed to be denying. I'm just explaining how HN works. The connection between tech and politics is hardly new and it's discussed on HN all the time. I mentioned there is a current events
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by pvg 2y ago
Can you link me the post where I did that because I don't even know what 'problem' you're referring to.
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by pvg 2y ago
Look away from what? Musk and his antics show up in threads regularly. But it can't be on the front page 5 times a day. There's an article discussing current admin shenanigans on the fp right now.
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by pvg 2y ago
Most things are in some way connected to politics and power and they're regularly discussed here, along with their political implications and power dynamics. That still doesn't mean every news story is worth discussing here given
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by pvg 2y ago
It just seemed like an outright lie and I guess it is. It's a generic rhetorical flourish, those often come with a bit of hyperbole, aren't universally applicable, etc. That's a normal thing that happens when people have n
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by pvg 2y ago
I also understand that the HN algo has a feature where flamewar-esque threads can trigger flagging of the entire article. It doesn't but there's automatic downweighting which is not flagging. Flagging is something people do.
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by pvg 2y ago
You can mail such questions to hn@ycombinator.com although this one has been addressed in some of the recent mod comments. The reason such things get flagged has less to do with Musk but with the fact that HN isn't really a current eve
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by pvg 2y ago
It's just a mildly grumpy trope. You don't really need to cross-examine and wikipedia-link every slightly venty turn of phrase.
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by pvg 2y ago
If the point of view is 'threads should be gummed up with random meta about who flagged whomst and why', then yes, HN users and moderators regularly 'silence' its expressions and instances as offtopic.
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by pvg 2y ago
There's invariably some argument that something is 'relevant' in some way. Everything is relevant to something somehow. The aspirational goal of this messageboard is interesting conversation, though, and debating its "so
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by pvg 2y ago
You should maybe skip the meta-commentary which is something the site docs specifically ask you to avoid because it's tedious and uninteresting Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it mak
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by pvg 2y ago
You're better off showhning the thing itself, like here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42559726 rather than an example/demo of it and linking the github repo as your main submission. You could include the ex
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by pvg 2y ago
Small pedantinit, the cruise ship piece was written for and published by Harper's , not The Atlantic
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by pvg 2y ago
Waitlists can't be Show HN's but you could post this when you are ready for others to try it - https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by pvg 2y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by pvg 2y ago
I don't know if this is a good place for feature requests If you've checked out the thing being showhn enough to have a feature request, you're doing Show HN right.
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by pvg 2y ago
Show HN is for showing things you've made other people can try and excludes most reading material - take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html For blog posts and the like you can just post without the &#x2
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by pvg 2y ago
Related discussion a couple of months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42084080 Lots of related links including one to a tweetier version of this work.
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by pvg 2y ago
I don't know but if you want more Ask HNs, the search will give you a ranch dressing hose of them, in reverse chronological order: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by pvg 2y ago
Ongoing discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42806301
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by pvg 2y ago
Small related a thread a few months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40848340
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by pvg 2y ago
Discussions in 2014 and 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8738869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11660492

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