<story><title>A Plea To New HN People</title><url></url><text>Hey there.&lt;p&gt;Firstly, thanks for joining our little corner of the web. It&apos;s great to have you here, and we look forward to getting to know you.&lt;p&gt;However, there&apos;s a culture here we&apos;d like to keep, and some of you are unknowingly damaging it a little, and I&apos;d like to point you in the right direction as it were.&lt;p&gt;I think you see HN as a mini version of reddit. Which in a way, it is. But it&apos;s a mini version of a tiny part of reddit. We don&apos;t really want stuff on politics or whatnot on here. We want things on code, on business and startups. Also, hacking things is good and post-worthy.&lt;p&gt;What isn&apos;t is...&lt;p&gt;&quot;Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they&apos;re evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they&apos;d cover it on TV news, it&apos;s probably off-topic.&quot;&lt;p&gt;From patio11: &quot;We also discourage pithy one-liners, personal abuse (even witty personal abuse... although candidly speaking you&apos;re probably overestimating how witty you&apos;re being if you&apos;re thinking of fudging this one), memes, and the letters TL; DR.&quot;&lt;p&gt;I know the guidelines are hidden at the bottom, and so you probably didn&apos;t read them, but I just thought I&apos;d bring this to your attention.&lt;p&gt;Kthxbai&lt;p&gt;EDIT 1: To clarify, it&apos;s not that I think HN is turning into Reddit, it&apos;s that some people (mostly new) seem to think it should. I respectfully disagree, and think it&apos;s quite alright without being reddit.&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: Yes, I&apos;ve read the guidelines. I&apos;m not complaining that it&apos;s becoming reddit, it&apos;s that some users seem to think it should. See EDIT 1.&lt;p&gt;EDIT 3: Added patio11&apos;s points.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blasdel</author><text>What do you mean &lt;i&gt;&apos;we&apos;&lt;/i&gt;, white man?&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  user:	   petewailes
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Did you even &lt;i&gt;read&lt;/i&gt; the guidelines you reference?: &lt;i&gt;&quot;If your account is less than a year old, please don&apos;t submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It&apos;s a common semi-noob illusion.)&quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A Plea To New HN People</title><url></url><text>Hey there.&lt;p&gt;Firstly, thanks for joining our little corner of the web. It&apos;s great to have you here, and we look forward to getting to know you.&lt;p&gt;However, there&apos;s a culture here we&apos;d like to keep, and some of you are unknowingly damaging it a little, and I&apos;d like to point you in the right direction as it were.&lt;p&gt;I think you see HN as a mini version of reddit. Which in a way, it is. But it&apos;s a mini version of a tiny part of reddit. We don&apos;t really want stuff on politics or whatnot on here. We want things on code, on business and startups. Also, hacking things is good and post-worthy.&lt;p&gt;What isn&apos;t is...&lt;p&gt;&quot;Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they&apos;re evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they&apos;d cover it on TV news, it&apos;s probably off-topic.&quot;&lt;p&gt;From patio11: &quot;We also discourage pithy one-liners, personal abuse (even witty personal abuse... although candidly speaking you&apos;re probably overestimating how witty you&apos;re being if you&apos;re thinking of fudging this one), memes, and the letters TL; DR.&quot;&lt;p&gt;I know the guidelines are hidden at the bottom, and so you probably didn&apos;t read them, but I just thought I&apos;d bring this to your attention.&lt;p&gt;Kthxbai&lt;p&gt;EDIT 1: To clarify, it&apos;s not that I think HN is turning into Reddit, it&apos;s that some people (mostly new) seem to think it should. I respectfully disagree, and think it&apos;s quite alright without being reddit.&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: Yes, I&apos;ve read the guidelines. I&apos;m not complaining that it&apos;s becoming reddit, it&apos;s that some users seem to think it should. See EDIT 1.&lt;p&gt;EDIT 3: Added patio11&apos;s points.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>We also discourage pithy one-liners, personal abuse (even witty personal abuse... although candidly speaking you&apos;re probably overestimating how witty you&apos;re being if you&apos;re thinking of fudging this one), memes, and the letters TL; DR.</text></comment>