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@jpesal: I turned on "Show Dead", went to your profile, and checked out your links. I've never seen them before, and have no skin in the game, I just wanted to see why people might flag them. Personally, I can see no reason for them to be on HN. It's true, I say that about many posts, but in this case they may be great ... but what makes them of interest to the HN community? What connection is there with technology, start-ups, or computing? Assuming HN is a community with a common interest, but then wide interests, they will still, in general, not be interested in everything, so what do you think would attract this community to your work? This isn't a comment on the quality, it's just a sense that it's not resonating with this audience, and some people sense that and flag it to say: "I don't think this belongs here." In contrast ... why do you think it does belong here, on Hacker News, for this specific audience? @onyva: I read through that link several times, and I can't see why it's anything about Twitter bias. Also, I'm not sure why I should trust them more than anyone else. Again, I didn't flag it ... I never saw it ... but I can't see anything useful or intellectually engaging about it. |
Perhaps it is easier to understand looking at another topic. For example I like soccer, but if I post something about soccer it will be flagged 99% of the time. (The exceptions seams to be the Super Bowl, I blame USA centrism.)
Some post about some tech related to sport may get better traction here, like augmented reality to determine where each player was, or some algorithm to predict the results in a big championship.
It's not common that literature stories get traction,but there are exemptions from time to time, mostly some kind of science fiction. (Post about a famous author or book may get more traction.)