why do my comments to a past discussion on search get auto killed?
using the new search box searching for the title, it still comes up, but when I make a critical point and link to it my post goes straight to dead??
try searching for : What's the deal with search on HN
seems there was a very different attitude towards it then...
pea gee today: "Sorry this took so long. For a while we hoped to implement our own search, but it became apparent that would take a lot of work to do right"
pea gee 392 days ago: "The explanation is a lot less involved than your question: what makes users happy is not features, but the quality of the submissions and comments. So I focus on the latter instead of the former. The result is a spartan site with good content. There's a YC funded startup that may solve the problem. If they do I'll use them. But frankly the issue is not at the top of my list. This is a classic example of how one should give users what they want, not what they say they want. Lots of people say they want search, but I would be suprised if there was a single user who'd left HN because it lacked search. Whereas if I let the frontpage get filled up with crap, or the comment threads filled up with mean or stupid comments, people would start leaving pretty quickly. So almost all the time I spend thinking about HN is spent thinking about how to avoid that." -source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329334
To your credit you did come back with the YC investment product, but please don't disguise the fact that you didn't think search was necessary in the first place. Seems pumping up your investment was the impetuous that changed your mind. Nothing wrong with that at all, just let's keep the story factual. This is a classic example of how one should give users what increases value of a portfolio sister company and dressing it up as something else, not what they say they want.
pg today:
"Sorry this took so long. For a while we hoped to implement our own search, but it became apparent that would take a lot of work to do right"
pg 392 days ago:
"The explanation is a lot less involved than your question: what makes users happy is not features, but the quality of the submissions and comments. So I focus on the latter instead of the former. The result is a spartan site with good content.
There's a YC funded startup that may solve the problem. If they do I'll use them. But frankly the issue is not at the top of my list. This is a classic example of how one should give users what they want, not what they say they want. Lots of people say they want search, but I would be suprised if there was a single user who'd left HN because it lacked search. Whereas if I let the frontpage get filled up with crap, or the comment threads filled up with mean or stupid comments, people would start leaving pretty quickly. So almost all the time I spend thinking about HN is spent thinking about how to avoid that."
-source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329334
To your credit you did come back with the YC investment product, but please don't disguise the fact that you didn't think search was necessary in the first place. Seems pumping up your investment was the impetuous that changed your mind. Nothing wrong with that at all, just let's keep the story factual. This is a classic example of how one should give users what increases value of a portfolio sister company and dressing it up as something else, not what they say they want.
Its a bit of an insult to all the independent filmmakers out there who "build" from passion in a different art medium (especially documentarians) who hope to "change the world", with little chance of fat paydays. The editing process is "hacking" together reams of footage and there have long been "hackwriters" in Hollywood.
with the implosion of Digg, there has been an influx of users from digg to reddit and here, and surely from reddit to here.
trolls roll downhill, so to speak.
so why when a user asks what's going on with HN, the comment gets hammered? or is it the trolls doing the hammering.
I made a similar comment recently and it got just as quickly crushed.
something is awry at HN and some of us care. surely, the growth is good and there will be all types but shooting the messenger only proves the negative point.
after all the companies Microsoft has destroyed using this tactic, I'm surprised anyone even picks up their call. Sure the lure of big bucks is appealing, but their track record is very clear. This has been their M.O since the beginning. Just ask Steve Jobs.
they make so little that do not qualify. let's punish them even more??
this comment is indicative of terrible elitist attitudes that plague HN comments nowadays