Poll: HNer types

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=898973

by alexandros • 17 years ago

21 13 17 years ago

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silvestrov• 17 years ago

Us reader-only voters are hypocrites!

fugue88• 17 years ago

So are us reader-only commenters!

P.S. I upvoted you. :)

wdewind• 17 years ago

this is inherently skewed. many reader onlys dont have accounts and so wont vote and so will be vastly underrepresented. like asking how many people who voted for president are under the age of 18.

alexandros2• 17 years ago

Fair point. Nothing I can do about it though. In any case, the interesting bit is the correlation between the other roles.

javanix• 17 years ago

There are a lot of options on here - I think you might run into trouble with people not feeling like scrolling all the way down to the bottom of the list.

alexandros2• 17 years ago

I guess it would be nicer to have four options and the choice to click all applicable, and then have a combination results view. I guess we have to work with what we have.

prakash• 17 years ago

Do you see the irony in your poll :-)

ax0n• 17 years ago

I lurked via RSS only for a very, very long time before I made an account. Now, I still primarily read, but I also comment. I occasionally hit the "new" page and upvote things if I have some free time.

dylanz• 17 years ago

If I find something interesting, I usually don't even think about posting it, as I'm too lazy to check to see if it's a duplicate or not. Is there a cure for that problem (or my laziness)?

dsil• 17 years ago

There is! If you submit a link that has already been submitted you'll just be sent to that post's page instead of posting a dupe.

JeremyChase• 17 years ago

This works, but not a perfect solution because the URL must be identical. For example if I post the link to the 'printable' version of a page this will not work if only the standard page has already been posted.

dmpayton• 17 years ago

I don't post because I most of my information from HN and Reddit. I let the community be my filter.

I do occasionally comment, though, and I read lots.

antirez• 17 years ago

Pretty impressed by the number of reader-only having an account.

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