alt Hacker NewsInteresting how this highlights a philosophical conundrum here that I'm not sure I have the answer to that goes beyond just forums. Do people make the community, or do rules make the community? I can envision arguments for both sides.
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longislandguido • yesterday at 7:41 PM
People here prefer arguing about the rules (and alleged violations thereof) more than they do making concrete, substantive arguments.
ipv6ipv4 • yesterday at 7:39 PM
It’s the interaction of the two.
Does it matter?
If HN gets invaded by people who want to discuss cooking and start submitting and upvoting cooking articles and HN turns into cooking discussion website? And once they get majority, they'll change the rules to make it exclusively about cooking.
It's still people, just different people. People who like cooking vs. people who like technology and startups.
There's no philosophical conundrum.
Do you want HN to be colonized by cooking people or not? That is the question.
I don't.
We need to stand our ground and repel colonizers who want to change the character of HN. Our unity is our strength.