Comment by tptacek
1 year ago
We've been running this system for something like a decade now, I think we know how it's going to converge.
1 year ago
We've been running this system for something like a decade now, I think we know how it's going to converge.
I don't. I'd like to know however! Do tell!
It converges to the front page we have now, which, while imperfect, seems to be to the liking of the community, such that stories like this carry a bunch of comments about how happy they are about moderation here, and how about how few if any of the stories getting yeeted from the front page are things they even want to see on HN.
HN does not have to be a space for conversations about every important story. It is enough for it to be good at the conversations it is good at. There's a whole wide internet out there for the rest of the important conversations to take place on. Moreover: that has always been the premise of HN; it's not a principle we just sort of slipped into accidentally.