[rms]

I think it's about time for you to let the community go off-topic. I understand the motive for keeping this site focused on start-ups but allowing another area of the site for general link-sharing and discussion will be enlightening for all of us.

[pg]

I'm seriously thinking of doing something like this, but as a separate site, not part of news.yc (though using the same sw). I miss the old reddit.

[rms]

Well, I look forward to it. You have a great community here to seed a reddit clone.

[falsestprophet]

I would advocate adding the ability to ignore users who join after a specified date. This would allow everyone to freeze the community just the way they like it. I think it would be an elegent hack in lieu of competent recommendation.

[chris_l]

I think the trick to preserve the "old reddit" on a new site would be to allow people to choose whose stuff they get to see, i.e. filter by users. That way the early elite doesn't have to get washed out.

[rms]

It'd be easier to just let the site get too big, sell it to a major company, and then start over. You can't lose!