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Yep. Except that, HN was created primarily for the YC (or, YC and friends) community. It was open, and became increasingly popular, but, probably, still: It exists to do what it wants to do. I.e., it serves its own interests. In that sense, pg has been quite -- perhaps incredibly -- accommodating. The world came and "spammed" his cool, informative, high signal/noise site. He's tweaked and beaten back the worst of the, erm, "side effects" of this. I don't know him, but in my therefore somewhat uninformed impression, this is work he is willing to do, perhaps because it preserves the value he and parties he's concerned about find in the site. But... He's not trying to sell you anything -- well, not anything about HN, per se. So, if a bunch of UI and instructions don't drive his own needs and goals, you can forget about them. If people don't track and respond to comments, well, that also means a lot of... "defensive" comments that don't get made and therefore don't have to be policed. (I'm just... not even speculating, I'm making up one hypothetical result.) I'm not writing this to defend the decisions, overly. Rather, to explain a bit of my own perspective on HN and perhaps how it might help a reader of this comment better relate to the site. Sometimes, too, I find myself more in favor of such apparent decisions after I've observed for a while. When HN is not too accommodating, it may discourage some of those participants who make other sites increasingly into crapfests. |
That makes sense ... I guess. I'm not convinced that it's a good approach to avoiding the bad guys, but it's easy.