I am in total agreement that all of these "boring" stories are far more interesting than most of the interesting stories have been.
Er, I think that makes sense.
Anyhow, maybe now we can pick a Language of the Day, or some other geeky topic to vote up on the front page each day of the week? Maybe C Efficiency Hacks, or Interesting Uses of Graph Algorithms, or ...
You don't need to pick. A weird unstable combination of the internet and the community on this site will do the picking for you. Furthermore, it will pick 29 other topics to fill your front page. Isn't that amazing?
1. If you upvoted all the Erlang articles yesterday, it has something to do with pg. I like Erlang too, but much of what made it to the front page was bullshit.
2. A day's worth of Erlang madness will do nothing for HN other than squash a day's worth of the usual stories. And when a few hundred users mass-upvote a few dozen stories for no other reason than that pg half-joked about it, I'd say that has more Reddit-nature than HN-nature.
I am in total agreement that all of these "boring" stories are far more interesting than most of the interesting stories have been.
Er, I think that makes sense.
Anyhow, maybe now we can pick a Language of the Day, or some other geeky topic to vote up on the front page each day of the week? Maybe C Efficiency Hacks, or Interesting Uses of Graph Algorithms, or ...
You don't need to pick. A weird unstable combination of the internet and the community on this site will do the picking for you. Furthermore, it will pick 29 other topics to fill your front page. Isn't that amazing?
Ah, gotcha. The Cult of Paul strikes.
The Cult of Paul or the legitimate desire of us old timers to keep this site from turning into just another reddit.
I just up voted all the Erlang articles and it has nothing to with pg.
(I also happen to genuinely like Erlang)
1. If you upvoted all the Erlang articles yesterday, it has something to do with pg. I like Erlang too, but much of what made it to the front page was bullshit.
2. A day's worth of Erlang madness will do nothing for HN other than squash a day's worth of the usual stories. And when a few hundred users mass-upvote a few dozen stories for no other reason than that pg half-joked about it, I'd say that has more Reddit-nature than HN-nature.
Sure it keeps the drive by visitors from staying, but it makes HN useless (unless you _really_ _really_ like Erlang) for the next few days.
There has to be a better way to control the audience than intentionally ruining the content.
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"keep this site from turning into just another reddit"
Why, because reddit has a wide variety of interesting links on its front page instead of a page full of Erlang links?
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