Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?

Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by vaksel on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @06:47PM (#3454286)

HN itself? No

All the startups/sites that everyone on here runs? Absolutely

You don't even have to go 100% dark, you can just have a splash telling your users about SOPA. You need to realize

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by Samuel_Michon on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @07:12PM (#3454387)

Show, don't tell.

For most viewers, just showing a notice explaining SOPA will be too abstract. Shutting down your site or service, while putting up a notice, has a higher chance of bringing the point home.

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by makeramen on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @08:02PM (#3454557)

I think you got it backwards. Just displaying a notice is "telling." Actually shutting down is "showing" by doing.

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by Samuel_Michon on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @08:33PM (#3454664)

In case it wasn't clear from my previous post: we're in agreement. Show, by taking content and services down. Tell, by putting up an explanation of SOPA and what folks can do to stop it.

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by crgt on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @07:29PM (#3454456)

Perhaps on that day, HN blacks out all normal content and instead just features a list of all the sites that have gone black in protest? Could let users submit URLs to be added to the list.

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Re:Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA? by jitendra_ on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @11:47PM (#3455081)

Agree with that. Besides featuring the list of sites gone black in protest, HN could also display pointers to effects of SOPA (for non-regular HN visitors), contact info for Congress representatives.

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