namelesstrash02

I have an honest question. Do you really feel this way about "pg et al"? I'm asking because these kinds of comments about "pg et al" is really not helping anyone at HN or elsewhere defend against accusations of elitism and exclusionary sentiment.

I'll try my best. Okay, imagine a bicycle. Question: 'Where' in your mind did that happen? How was it 'oriented'?

Next, imagine a bicycle. Now imagine an orange. Now imagine a vest. Now imagine a bicycle. Question: Was there any sort of "spatial sequence" or alignment thereupon? Try that sequence again, but imagine them along some "orientation" or "position".

Now, imagine a bicycle three meters behind you.

See what I mean? This is exactly how synesthesia happens for me. Most of the time, the "sensation" is just there. Formless, positionless, orientationless, in the "cyberspace" of my consciousness. It's possible to give the synesthesia "orientation" or "position", but most of the time it occurs to me wherever its synesthetic counterpart occurs, usually with the same "position" in my internal operating "cyberspace". This is what I meant earlier when I said something like "when it's there, it's just there, but if it were on my left hand, it would be on my left hand"...

I hope this makes sense for you. If it does not, feel free to ask me whatever will help you understand, or give me directions for how to explain it like I did.

You are implying that there is not absurd elitism present on HN (which, in my opinion, there very much is) as well as an exclusive environment. For example, while my comment is both an opinion and said in a non-confrontational way, the fact that it's going to be unpopular among the HN elitist crowd will likely mean some sort of negative repercussions (downvote or hellban).

For crying out loud, the thread about 'the evolution of HN' on the top of the front page is disallowing comments from "new" users! Holy smokes if that isn't a slap in the face of egalitarian content contribution. And let me be very frank here when I say that if your goal is to attract "hackers" -- and keep them around -- to contribute to items of interest to other "hackers" then it's in your interests to tone down any kind of totalitarian control over the conversation, or you will probably soon run out of "hackers".

Your comment that HN thrives because of the volume of people and diversity of content is exactly what paul graham is arguing against in his quotes on the recent TechCrunch article. He is saying that there's a direct correlation between scale and undesirable interaction and content. If that isn't exclusive and elitist, I don't know what is.

Again, I hope a fair amount of people get to read this comment before it (and this account) disappears, because it's a glaring problem with this system.

Wow thanks for pointing this out (about the algorithm). That's perfect for people like me who hobby around in algorithms! Big thanks for considering your users!