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Do you think it is silly to complain that a story doesn't belong when it is voted to the top?

Posted by falsestprophet on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @02:03AM
from the self-post dept.
From today:

"I'm sorry, but i really am tired of this reddit content making the front page of Hacker News." (about the [cool] map) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=119375

"Important world news, which is why it's on cnn.com and pretty much every other news site out there. Pretty much irrelevant to hackers." (about castro) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=118936

Although, I am pretty frustrated that porn (not art) made the front page of reddit today... http://reddit.com/info/69b35/comments/ (of course nsfw)

Please comment under yes or no.

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Re:Do you think it is silly to complain that a story doesn't... by VinzO on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @05:42AM (#119603)
NO. I love this site because you can find informations relative to hackers and startups. If I want to find general world news there are plenty of other site that I can look to. I wish the site stay focused on hacker/startup news. Otherwise the risk is that this kind of informations get diluted in world news. Maybe this kind of news would not reach the top if we could downmod it
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Re:Do you think it is silly to complain that a story doesn't... by atoulouse on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @05:23AM (#119598)
No. Hackers aren't totally insulated from politics, and as long as we have some interest in these things, having that reflected on n.yc isn't bad, IMO. By the same reasoning a deluge of such stories would be inappropriate because, proportionally speaking, we're not as concerned about such things as more traditionally hacker-relevant topics.
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Re:Do you think it is silly to complain that a story doesn't... by cdr on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @08:36AM (#119641)
I'm sad that this reddit-style meta-complaint made it to the front page, actually.
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Re:Do you think it is silly to complain that a story doesn't... by menloparkbum on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @05:37AM (#119602)
no. if there was a down arrow, you could downmod. but there isn't, so you can only complain.
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Re:Do you think it is silly to complain that a story doesn't... by delackner on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @04:03AM (#119568)
NO. In fact, I would love a link that says "downmod/ignore stories from similar to those that vote for this story". If a story has been up-ranked by a lot of people that you disagree with, you should be able to just ignore them, effectively producing different news feeds for different affinity pools.
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Re:Do you think it is silly to complain that a story doesn't... by notor on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @02:13AM (#119520)
yes or no

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Please comment

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Re:Do you think it is silly to complain that a story doesn't... by andr on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @10:06AM (#119709)
you mean a story like this one?
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Re:Do you think it is silly to complain that a story doesn't... by falsestprophet on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @02:03AM (#119517)
Yes.
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Re:Do you think it is silly to complain that a story doesn't... by falsestprophet on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @02:03AM (#119518)
No.
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