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0 pointsdluan10y ago0 comments

Why should HN only be reserved for "official" publications?

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tokenadult10y ago· 2 in thread

Thanks for asking. The idea is not mine, but the idea of the founders of the site, in different words. As Hacker News says in its welcome letter to new participants, "Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."[1] Submitting press releases rather than peer-reviewed publications or journalism about peer-reviewed publications violates the first rule directly and generally leads to comment threads that violate the second rule.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

dluanOP10y ago

I totally understand the symptoms that lead to a rule like that but ain't that throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Or conversely, peer-reviewed pubs can still be muddy bathwater.

tokenadult10y ago

I thought your own top-level comment was quite eloquent about the reasons not to submit press releases like this to Hacker News. Simply put, we can do better. When we do better, the whole community benefits from better discussion.

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