I am going to continue to post things that are interesting.
This had more to do with the Argentina default than John Oliver himself. Clearly at least ten people thought it was interesting enough that they thought other people should see it. Why not just hide it? I almost completely equate you and off-topic reminders.
I don’t mind if you associate me with off-topic reminders. I rarely flag articles, and when I do I:
A. mostly do it for off topic
B. feel like it’s more polite to explain why I flagged an article
The reason I do this is because I don’t want lobsters to turn into hacker news. I think that hacker news also has many articles that I find interesting that are nontechnical, but in part because of this, ends up not being a particularly useful or interesting community.
I don’t just hide it because I think that not having it posted would be better than having it be posted. I think hiding is more appropriate for things that I don’t like / disagree with. In fact, I both like and agree with this post, but think that it’s not helping the site.
I wish we could migrate this now off-topic discussion to a new public thread, ;)
I would argue that the problem that hacker news is facing isn’t the level of nontechnical content, is the level of low quality content (stories and discussion), something being technical doesn’t make it worthwhile. Too many people that are fine with LQC are discussing and upvoting stories that should belong on Reddit.
It is in this way I think your fears are justified but since there isn’t a low quality flag, off-topic has become your proxy vote.
I don’t want to participate in a Lobsters that focusing solely on the technical to the detriment of everything else. We need balance, this why we have art and philosophy tags.
My impression is that by and large, we try to use tags like art and philosophy for bits where they intersect with tech. This is clear when you look at either tag, but as some examples, I would consider the canonical usage of the philosophy to be Steve Klabnik’s excellent Deleuze for Developers post. Similarly for art might be the 8088 Domination: Video capture from an IBM PC 5160.
I think where the two of us differ is that I would rather live in a world that has more than just technology, but I would rather that lobsters only has technology. It sounds like you would rather have a lobsters which has more than just technology, which I think would degrade the (at the moment very high) signal to noise ratio.
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If true, that is even more outrageous. Ref?
I’m a big fan of John Oliver, but I think this is off topic for lobsters. Does it have anything to do with technology?
I am going to continue to post things that are interesting.
This had more to do with the Argentina default than John Oliver himself. Clearly at least ten people thought it was interesting enough that they thought other people should see it. Why not just hide it? I almost completely equate you and off-topic reminders.
I don’t mind if you associate me with off-topic reminders. I rarely flag articles, and when I do I:
A. mostly do it for off topic
B. feel like it’s more polite to explain why I flagged an article
The reason I do this is because I don’t want lobsters to turn into hacker news. I think that hacker news also has many articles that I find interesting that are nontechnical, but in part because of this, ends up not being a particularly useful or interesting community.
I don’t just hide it because I think that not having it posted would be better than having it be posted. I think hiding is more appropriate for things that I don’t like / disagree with. In fact, I both like and agree with this post, but think that it’s not helping the site.
I wish we could migrate this now off-topic discussion to a new public thread, ;)
I would argue that the problem that hacker news is facing isn’t the level of nontechnical content, is the level of low quality content (stories and discussion), something being technical doesn’t make it worthwhile. Too many people that are fine with LQC are discussing and upvoting stories that should belong on Reddit.
It is in this way I think your fears are justified but since there isn’t a low quality flag, off-topic has become your proxy vote.
I don’t want to participate in a Lobsters that focusing solely on the technical to the detriment of everything else. We need balance, this why we have art and philosophy tags.
There have been many discussions about this before. See:
Off-topic downvotes
What is on-topic and what is not?
remove the “news” tag
More tags?
In fact, we’ve had this discussion before. Teens live in commercial online spaces because that’s their only option
My impression is that by and large, we try to use tags like art and philosophy for bits where they intersect with tech. This is clear when you look at either tag, but as some examples, I would consider the canonical usage of the philosophy to be Steve Klabnik’s excellent Deleuze for Developers post. Similarly for art might be the 8088 Domination: Video capture from an IBM PC 5160.
Here is an example of an inappropriate usage of the art tag: What Major World Cities Look Like at Night, Minus the Light Pollution and since it was removed, here is a link to the original post.
I think where the two of us differ is that I would rather live in a world that has more than just technology, but I would rather that lobsters only has technology. It sounds like you would rather have a lobsters which has more than just technology, which I think would degrade the (at the moment very high) signal to noise ratio.