thanks for revisiting the posting rules. it's been awhile since i read them and i neglected (my bad) to reread them when i finally got up the nerve to start posting. i will definitely keep this mind when i submit something in future. however, most of the time, i do submit non-mainstream stories instead of the "duhhh" everybody w/ half a brain should know or have this figured out already... unless of course, the news item-in-question pertains to emergent technologies, like the blockchain or AI and the like.
however, let me ask you this: do you think hn has reached the point where it is practically impossible to consume all of the content that is posted each day? and the fact that titles+urls i submit -- don't get upvoted or flagged -- is not due to an overzealous gatekeeper but because they fall through the cracks. no one sees them. and perhaps it is time that yc updated their submission form so that the content can be more nuanced (classified) and say, if i, for example, want to look at breaking news in an emergent field like cryptocurrencies i click on that page, the way that i can look at the jobs or show sections.
or if that is not feasible, do you think the hn community will continue to fracture with new hn clones being set up -- like coinspotting, cryptoanalys.is, data tau, growth hackers, inbound, python hacker news, etc. -- to provide for and appeal to a more specialized userbase.
> and the fact that titles+urls i submit -- don't get upvoted or flagged -- is not due to an overzealous gatekeeper but because they fall through the cracks. no one sees them.
Other people's submissions are getting upvoted or flagged, so its probably not that no one is seeing yours (though there are potential timing issues that might make that the case), its probably just that no one is either interested in or objecting to them.
> and perhaps it is time that yc updated their submission form so that the content can be more nuanced (classified) and say, if i, for example, want to look at breaking news in an emergent field like cryptocurrencies i click on that page, the way that i can look at the jobs or show sections.
I think YC specifically does not want to be maintaining something like Reddit that covers everything under the sun, and limiting the classification breadth and depth is a tool to encourage that.
> if that is not feasible, do you think the hn community will continue to fracture with new hn clones being set up
I think new discussion forums, including ones that are generally similar to HN and target some segment of the same audience, or going to continue to get set up no matter what HN does. And that's a good thing.
however, let me ask you this: do you think hn has reached the point where it is practically impossible to consume all of the content that is posted each day? and the fact that titles+urls i submit -- don't get upvoted or flagged -- is not due to an overzealous gatekeeper but because they fall through the cracks. no one sees them. and perhaps it is time that yc updated their submission form so that the content can be more nuanced (classified) and say, if i, for example, want to look at breaking news in an emergent field like cryptocurrencies i click on that page, the way that i can look at the jobs or show sections.
or if that is not feasible, do you think the hn community will continue to fracture with new hn clones being set up -- like coinspotting, cryptoanalys.is, data tau, growth hackers, inbound, python hacker news, etc. -- to provide for and appeal to a more specialized userbase.