Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and badge access suspended

Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by mrguyorama on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:51PM (#33658678)

You are wrong on so many levels. HN IS the ad. The whole point of HN is to push VC narratives and "Greed is good" style things onto nerds and less-nerdy but more business hungry folks. It's not meant to generate any revenue at all, it's a marketing funnel.

Moderation is pretty much JUST dang.

HN DOES have competitors, lobste.rs is pretty much directly competing, and more importantly, this very concept of "simple board to post links and comment" was borrowed to build freaking REDDIT

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by int_19h on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:01AM (#33667769)

Reddit predates HN by two years

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by dang on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:28AM (#33667923)

You're right, but mrguyorama isn't wrong either since the same person came up with both ideas. They just had the time arrow reversed.

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by dang on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:29AM (#33667931)

I know it might be hard to believe, but it's not the point of HN to push VC narratives or "greed is good". The strategy is much simpler and has a bunch of nice properties, one being that it works even better if you tell people what it is. It's simply to keep the community interested and happy. That's not easy, but it's the way to maximize HN's value—even if you look at it in the most self-interested way from YC's point of view.

I've written a bunch about this in the past: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... If you (or anyone) read those explanations and end up still having a question which I haven't answered there, I'd like to know what it is.

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