Re:Ask HN: Quality of content on HN
by hollerith on Sunday March 13, 2011 @05:33AM
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Once people realize that an online community is a good place to learn and to teach, they are tempted to use it to learn and to teach things that are outside the original or explicit purpose of the site.
That is what happened 20 or more years ago on comp.arch for example and to a lesser extent on other newsgroups about a narrow technical subject like comp.lang.lisp.
In other words, one of the reasons why off-topic things are discussed on HN is that the human desire to learn and to teach is very strong -- especially among people who have come to know and admire one another.
That is what happened 20 or more years ago on comp.arch for example and to a lesser extent on other newsgroups about a narrow technical subject like comp.lang.lisp.
In other words, one of the reasons why off-topic things are discussed on HN is that the human desire to learn and to teach is very strong -- especially among people who have come to know and admire one another.