Re:Why There Will Never be Another Da Vinci
by Mz on Saturday July 16, 2011 @09:55AM
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I feel that HN is broken in some fundamental way.
As long as people don't make an excessively big deal out of "duplicates" and allow for discussion to happen the second time around (or third..or whatever), I don't have a big problem with it. It's an organic process and, as you indicated, timing has a lot to do with it. Many of my posts here get completely ignored -- no votes, neither up nor down, no replies, no indication of any kind it was ever read. Then sometimes a post of mine gets multiple replies and many votes when I figured it would be ignored as usual. I am still trying to get used to that. It is partly the scale of the place. Personally, I find that refreshing. I feel like I have finally found a big enough pond where I can be a little fish and not run into all kinds of nightmarish problems over being seen as too big for my britches.
As long as people don't make an excessively big deal out of "duplicates" and allow for discussion to happen the second time around (or third..or whatever), I don't have a big problem with it. It's an organic process and, as you indicated, timing has a lot to do with it. Many of my posts here get completely ignored -- no votes, neither up nor down, no replies, no indication of any kind it was ever read. Then sometimes a post of mine gets multiple replies and many votes when I figured it would be ignored as usual. I am still trying to get used to that. It is partly the scale of the place. Personally, I find that refreshing. I feel like I have finally found a big enough pond where I can be a little fish and not run into all kinds of nightmarish problems over being seen as too big for my britches.
Peace.