On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. "
The article in question certainly does satisfy my intellectual curiosity. It shows a disturbing trend of muckrakers being shut down by dictatorial governments. In addition, the intercourse that is currently being carried out on this particular is very interesting and also satisfies my intellectual curiosity.
I can't downvote you, but even if I did have enough karma to do so, I wouldn't anyway. I'd rather people have misconceptions and have them resolved rather than have people punished for those misconceptions.
> I can't downvote you, but...I wouldn't anyway. I'd rather people have misconceptions...
Diego has been on HN over 5 years and has enough karma to be able to downvote 10 times over. Dismissing his comment as a misconception of how HN works seems a bit ridiculous on your part. His observation is a legitimate one -- if there are no real limits on what material is appropriate, then how do we define ourselves as a community in a way that helps newcomers understand what is appropriate and how our litmus test differs from other sites?
Legitimate it may be, and by no means is this the most shining example of a good article, but it's not spam or anything like what is usually on the homepage of Reddit.
> if there are no real limits on what material is appropriate, then how do we define ourselves as a community
Let me stop you right there. There is a limit on appropriate material; in fact, it's from pg himself, and I included it in my original comment. The article in question qualifies as appropriate material, which is where diego is incorrect.
Even experienced people are not infallible; everyone makes mistakes.
> There is a limit on appropriate material...and I included it in my original comment.
I'm sorry, but I don't buy it -- "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is not a limit at all as it can be extended to literally everything depending on where each person's curiosity lies.
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On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. "
The article in question certainly does satisfy my intellectual curiosity. It shows a disturbing trend of muckrakers being shut down by dictatorial governments. In addition, the intercourse that is currently being carried out on this particular is very interesting and also satisfies my intellectual curiosity.
I can't downvote you, but even if I did have enough karma to do so, I wouldn't anyway. I'd rather people have misconceptions and have them resolved rather than have people punished for those misconceptions.