By posting about the "problem" of iPad stories you're generating yet another meta story about the iPad.

I'm all for hearing other news. Please submit some. If it's awesome, we'll hear it through the noise.

Not really. A meta that says, "Hey, let's stop" is not the same as simply submitting more non-iPad stories. The meta-comment forces a re-appraisal of the decision making model for up-voting.

The iPad story to end all iPad stories.

At times like this I wish the mods could merge multiple links into one large discussion. It seems like some of each discussion addresses the specific link being posted and a lot of the rest is general stuff that applies to any of the links being posted.

Agreed. Also, as much as a lot of rational discusion about what the target audience is and if it will success, all I can feel is sadness. I really have no arguments, but I only feel like in the presence of a pretty but completely stupid woman. It¡d be at least more tolerable if there was a single story to avoid.

No more stories about no more stories about the iPad!

I think it’s ok. I disagree with the sentiment but I think it’s the only polite way of voicing opposition. Much better than crowding the iPad submissions’ comments with noise. I think it’s useful to keep meta discussions separate from the normal discussions.

You can see that at least 64 people here agree with that opinion, so I would guess there are at least some people out there who are less likely to upvote iPad submissions after this.

It's only been one day since launch. Stories will die off soon enough.

I thought this may have been a statement of fact rather than an imperative. In the "new" queue I see 5 [of 30] iPad stories. That seems... not too bad.

Of the five: two are duplicates; those two are about updated code that's useful for iPad developers today. Two we could probably do without. One is this post.

Personally I'd settle for no more iPad stories posted multiple times under different names :)

Good call. Or at least let's wait till some of us have used the device for more than a few moments.

Seriously, I never knew there were this many technology evangelists. It's practically raining commentary.

You mean you want us to stop talking about the iPad being for mom but not, being a flop and a success, ironically open and closed, how it will crush Microsoft, Amazon, and Google in one go, and how it's hackable and closed?

OK fine.

Uhmm... we have a voting system here at Hacker News. If you don't like stories you can vote them down, just like everyone else.

Actually you can't vote stories down just flag them.

Actually flagging stories is supposed to be for reporting spam, not for saying that you disapprove of them.

what rank do you need to have to down vote something?

I would like an answer to this. There's all this talk of down-voting submissions and user comments but i don't have this option.

I think flagging submissions is 100 or 150, and downvoting comments is 200. One can't downvote submissions, only flagging.

Flagging is under 100; I'm able to right now, at 81, and have been able to for a while. Perhaps 50 or 75? I don't recall exactly when it showed up.

Okay, maybe it's 50 then, can't remember. I'm also wondering when topcolor becomes available. I have 250 right now, and I thought that the threshold for topcolor was 250 but I guess not.

Well, you can just not vote on them. But that's just as good.

Negative energy feeds it's positive counterpart

what's an iPad?

Hi all. I rigged Hacker Newspaper to skip any story which contains the word "iPad" (case-insensitive) in the title.

I've got that in effect for now and will remove it after the madness ebbs.

So if you want to read a version of HN with iPad references spam-filtered, here it is: http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/

Merry Xmas

srsly

Will there be a call for some erlangbposts??? I rly want to know moar about erlang!!! I been waiting for the call so that finally hn will have decent stories vs all iMaxiPad crap.