The Importance of the Home Button(fishtrain.com)
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The Importance of the Home Button
http://fishtrain.com/2007/10/15/the-importance-of-the-home-button/
The Home Button is highly important. Here's 3 reasons why.
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This article points out common sense. Of course the "home" button is useful. It has become web convention that the logo in the upper left corner is the "home" button. I'm also not sure why the author is trying to tie in the use of the home button to advertising, because to me those are completely separate interface elements that should not be considered together.
It seems like there have been a lot of design-related articles on Hacker News lately from sites that are either poorly designed or that completely ignore their own advice.
PS: rainsill only submits articles from this fishtrain site. Is that grounds for banning?
It seems like there have been a lot of design-related articles on Hacker News lately from sites that are either poorly designed or that completely ignore their own advice.
PS: rainsill only submits articles from this fishtrain site. Is that grounds for banning?
Submitting your own stuff is fine. We only ban people who do something crooked, like submitting the same thing over and over, submitting spam blogs or habitual linkjack sites, or upvoting submissions using sockpuppet accounts.
I've been thinking about how to ban people effectively. Do you think there is any use in making the banned person appear to be functional, though in fact impotent?
Comments could be seen from their account only, same with submissions. Voting/modding would appear to affect the total, though the number being tracking is the pair (total real, total real + total fake), with display based on banned status.
The idea is that there is little to stop someone from making a new account account if they note they are banned.
A similar scheme could be used on an individual basis for trolls. If you mark a troll, you can't see their comments, and they can't see yours. It would fork the audience, but the hope it would eventually be bipartite: trolls on one side, people that matter on the other.
Comments could be seen from their account only, same with submissions. Voting/modding would appear to affect the total, though the number being tracking is the pair (total real, total real + total fake), with display based on banned status.
The idea is that there is little to stop someone from making a new account account if they note they are banned.
A similar scheme could be used on an individual basis for trolls. If you mark a troll, you can't see their comments, and they can't see yours. It would fork the audience, but the hope it would eventually be bipartite: trolls on one side, people that matter on the other.
That's a really interesting idea. I've never thought of that. One problem with it is that the trick might be exposed if the evil-doer ever viewed the site without being logged in.
Hi Dcurtis,
Sorry if the article I wrote seemed like common sense. I was trying to point out why the home button has become web convention. And point out placement of content in relation to that.
FishTrain is my site. Why should I be banned for submitting articles from my site? Are there rules against this on YCombinator?
Sorry if the article I wrote seemed like common sense. I was trying to point out why the home button has become web convention. And point out placement of content in relation to that.
FishTrain is my site. Why should I be banned for submitting articles from my site? Are there rules against this on YCombinator?
I see this from various different authors, they write something on there blog then login here and submit it. I don't believe HN is meant to be the place to write the article it is more geared towards linking to other sites, Linking to your own where you could go in depth, provide images and downloads makes more sense.
I think I overreacted, and I apologize. The home button is web convention, and the purpose of your article was to me somewhat confusing.
I was under the impression that it is in bad taste to submit your own articles to social sites like news.yc, reddit, and Digg. It appears that you submit every single article you write. (And some, honestly, are good-- far better than this one.)
I was under the impression that it is in bad taste to submit your own articles to social sites like news.yc, reddit, and Digg. It appears that you submit every single article you write. (And some, honestly, are good-- far better than this one.)
> I was under the impression that it is in bad taste to submit your own articles to social sites like news.yc, reddit, and Digg.
If you took the time to write it, and are willing to share it, why not submit it? That's always seemed silly to me.
If you took the time to write it, and are willing to share it, why not submit it? That's always seemed silly to me.
Yeah, it is only against social convention here to submit your own stuff if it is plagarized or linkjacked or bad.
No worries. I will keep in mind trying to submit links to sites other than mine. Thanks for the tip.