I think it’s mostly a problem with how Hacker News works and that, to a certain extent, there is no way around it. I would think that a detailed 10,000 word article about recent Wikileaks developments every three months or so with an accompanying extensive discussion would be entirely appropriate. Not too much and not too little. The problem is that social news sites don’t have that kind of foresight.

That’s why we so often end up with this uncomfortable decision between accepting a topic and the accompanying occasional article avalanches or locking out a topic completely, neither of which seems entirely appropriate Wikileaks on Hacker News.