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by dang
1709 days ago
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You're certainly right that the submission stream here includes a lot of gems that get overlooked, and that the second-chance pool is a workaround for that—and far from a complete solution. But I think you're overinterpreting the reasons for this ("not about FAANG", "wrong time zone", "SV slacking off", etc.) - one could come up with all sorts of possible such reasons and without data they're all basically just-so stories. In the absence of specific evidence about specific factors, the simplest explanation is that it's just the way the medium works. By "the medium" I mean the large open internet forum, which HN is an instance of. Stuff routinely gets overlooked. To do something about this, we need countervailing mechanisms. The second-chance pool is the most successful one we've tried so far. I still want to extend the review process to the community at large, and I'm still not sure how quite to do that. |
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This is a tech/business site operated by a startup incubator. The things in the first category (entrepreneurship, new/popular technologies, prominent persons) come with the territory. They are the subjects that the primary audience wants (and has historically wanted) to discuss and keep apprised of.
What I find frustrating is the influx of people who come to a tech/business site with the primary goal of arguing politics. By my recollection, this started to get bad five(ish) years ago, and got out of control with the onset of the pandemic.