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Your right. I'll stop posting comments complaining and go somewhere else. By the way, again, please try and get the point of what people say instead of trying discredit them. If you don't think i'm enough a part of the community to dawn upon you a valid observation then so be it. As if you can't spot a problem only through observation. I won't be posting here any longer. Good job building the community robg.
You can read a site and not be registered. I've been on this site for months but never chose to register an account. Found out about it on techcrunch about 6 months ago and have been reading every day since. Even shared and discuss it with my boss. Just like on digg, it took me 8 months before I joined. You can see a pattern through observation of submissions. Instead of trying to discredit me by the length of days of my account, why dont you try and just take in my point and reflect on it and then interact with me on what you think. Its a word to the wise. I am not saying panic. Panic is for morons. But many people are aware of the problems with digg and they wont be fixed using simple user guidelines.
robg. Regarding the site having focus. I suggest you re-read the guidelines. When the guidelines are as vague as "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." it's not as easy as just throwing the guidelines at someone.
If you followed digg as close as I did from 05-07 and saw what happened you would feel the same way as the parent. Current HN was digg in early 05/06. Now look at it. It went from articles on computer science/tech at UW/google research/stanford/MSR to MSN/college humor in what seems like a flash because people flocked towards what was popularized instead of technical. I took solace in the fact there was a tech section but all those articles lost any sort of insight because the community fell apart. I recall reading explanations and watching videos about the internals of Map Reduce/GFS/Big Table soon after they were released for publication. Videos from the core kernel development team at MSR (check channel9). Understanding how Microsoft managed their software development teams from people at MS. How to ace alot of algorithm questions at interviews (mapping mazes,sorting,etc). All from digg. I recall having a brief discussion with a person at slashdot about this. I asked them if they were concerned about what digg was doing and if he thought it was the new paradigm. He didnt flinch one bit. Since slashdot was old it had been through this before. It knew that topics would quickly swerve towards "popsugar" type articles real quick. They knew need they needed editorial control and thats why slashdot is still around and kicking. I dont want to be a control freak, I just love HN and try and keep on top of the sources used!
Disclaimer: I commented on this last night in another thread in my defense for being called a sock puppet for voicing my opinion like the parent. But this comment is very relevant here.
If you followed digg as close as I did from 05-07 and saw what happened you would feel the same way. Current HN was digg in early 05/06. Now look at it. It went from articles on computer science/tech at UW/google research/stanford/MSR to MSN/college humor in what seems like a flash because people flocked towards what was popularized instead of technical. I took solace in the fact there was a tech section but all those articles lost any sort of insight because the community fell apart. I recall reading explanations and watching videos about the internals of Map Reduce/GFS/Big Table soon after they were released for publication. Videos from the core kernel development team at MSR (check channel9). Understanding how Microsoft managed their software development teams from people at MS. How to ace alot of algorithm questions at interviews (mapping mazes,sorting,etc). All from digg. I recall having a brief discussion with a person at slashdot about this. I asked them if they were concerned about what digg was doing and if he thought it was the new paradigm. He didnt flinch one bit. Since slashdot was old it had been through this before. It knew that topics would quickly swerve towards "popsugar" type articles real quick. They knew need they needed editorial control and thats why slashdot is still around and kicking. I dont want to be a control freak, I just love HN and try and keep on top of the sources used!
I'll flag next time. The title and source aren't anything to be proud of. Sentences such as "Their research raised the disturbing possibility that much of what we think and do is thought and done by an unconscious part of the brain — an inner zombie." sound asinine and misinforming. Really its disturbing huh? Shit im be controlled by an inner zombie like in the movies!
He would be better off just using the term subconcious or maybe working off the verbiage the researchers actually used. Maybe something along the lines of hidden levels of awareness and automatism. This way you wouldnt be trying to hook the reader as if they were a moron. Then again this is MSN. And if you read anything off the front page of MSN you realize that articles like this are dwarfed by tabloids and sensationalist crap.
Let him take on the difficult task of defining subconscious to a layman without the zombies.
Also don't forget to read some of the related articles such as "Eight organisms that make you go 'eww'" .
Give me a fucking break.
Crappy MSN articles made for bored soccer moms. Keep HN pure and away from the border tabloid sources.
why is this on HN?
Doesnt belong here in hacker news. Lots of things may be interesting to hackers, that doesnt mean you put them on the tech/startup forum. So keep that crap on digg/reddit and let their community fall apart not this one.