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by aikiai 6301 days ago
Disagree. HN is a community very much shaped by conscious decisions and discussion of what is and is not appropriate.

I care about this guy I've never known, and that he gets help.

I also care about HN, and that discussion here continues to remain on topic. I do think this case is important enough to maybe make an exception, but still worth raising the point afterward that it is a bit off topic.

If these three paragraphs can help shape this community, and what people do and do not choose to up vote, I think the comment is spot on and very well directed. I think that was the point, not trying to emphasize callousness or whine.

[Edit: some poor punctuation]
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dawson 6301 days ago
The parent's argument is that it isn't news because he doesn't know Tony and questions its suitability on HN because it's not interesting for people who don't know him. Well, welcome to the Internet. Not everyone is going to find every article posted relevant or interesting to them; suck-it-up my friend!

Besides which, it wasn't news per-say; HN was used as a medium to which might help locate Tony or gather information that could be used to contact him.

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w1ntermute 6301 days ago
"The parent's argument is that it isn't news because he doesn't know Tony and questions its suitability on HN because it's not interesting for people who don't know him. Well, welcome to the Internet. Not everyone is going to find every article posted relevant or interesting to them; suck-it-up my friend!"

I think this about sums it up. If the OP is looking for a link aggregation site with only links pertinent to himself, he is in for a lot of disappointment; the current state of technology makes that a virtual impossibility. While I don't find the majority of links posted on HN that interesting, I feel that it does a better job of linking to stories that I want to read than just about every other link aggregation site out there.

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Herring 6301 days ago
HN is blah, HN is not blah blah. God, 90% of this discussion. Yall are like Norton. You waste so many cycles it's worse than having a virus.
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