Tell HN: Why I Love This Community

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by cabinguy • 15 years ago

6 4 15 years ago

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There are plenty of reasons to love HN, but the reason I love it here: It's the only place I know of that truly celebrates ALL entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur doesn't have to raise $10 million to get recognized here. You don't need a 100x exit to be recognized here. If you work really, really hard and share your story (big or small) - this community appreciates you. I think that makes this place special.

Why do you love HN?

sagacity• 15 years ago

As Sir Ed Hillary answered when he was asked "Why did you climb Mt. Everest?"

Because it is there. :-)

bartonfink• 15 years ago

I visit here because HN aggressively focuses on content and has an intelligent userbase that values discussion and doesn't seem to get caught up in memes the way reddit seems to.

I used to visit Slashdot all the time because their userbase was intelligent enough to offset the low number of news items they covered, but they recently changed their interface to a dynamically loading AJAX monstrosity and disallowed preferences to keep the old, quicker HTML interface. At HN I can get news faster than Slashdot, with just as high a level of discussion and no overblown interface. I'm sold.

Zakuzaa• 15 years ago

I love HN for its high Signal/Noise ratio.

P.S: I just hope this comment is not ironic. :)

shii• 15 years ago

This entire post has high Noise/Signal ratio. And yes, it is ironic.

Tell HN: Why I Love This Community

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