Comment by dschobel
16 years ago
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.
First of all, Erlang is something very much worth learning about.
Second, it will only be this way for a short while. As you grow older your attention span will natural grow, don't worry about it kiddo.
Whether Erlang is worth learning about is entirely beside the point. The issue is whether it's worth sand-bagging the content for everybody on the tenuous theory that Erlang repulses "the wrong kind of people for HN".
Simply, it gets annoying when pg turn HN back into social-experiment mode.
Your second sentence is ad-hominem idiocy and doesn't merit a response.