Re:Hacker News is a social echo chamber
by angersock on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @12:09PM
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That is a &&, not an ||.
If they are well-written but don't involve technology, they don't activate the flag criteria. I may even upvote them if there are cool enough (many New Yorker essays, for example).
If they are poorly-written but do involve technology, they don't activate the flag criteria. I simply won't upvote them.
If they are both, they are taking up link space.
(I'm also personally opposed to the "Let's use hack to describe everything!". That said, I do appreciate good writing--for example, the piece on Frank Lucas that showed up a while ago.)
If they are well-written but don't involve technology, they don't activate the flag criteria. I may even upvote them if there are cool enough (many New Yorker essays, for example).
If they are poorly-written but do involve technology, they don't activate the flag criteria. I simply won't upvote them.
If they are both, they are taking up link space.
(I'm also personally opposed to the "Let's use hack to describe everything!". That said, I do appreciate good writing--for example, the piece on Frank Lucas that showed up a while ago.)