PG Says: Guys, that's enough with the Erlang submissions(news.ycombinator.com)

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PG Says: Guys, that's enough with the Erlang submissions

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512280

19 comments

It was fun while it lasted ;)

Or, incredibly confusing if you had no idea where it came from. PG's actual words are hilarious:

"Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral Genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine."

mechanical_fish17년 전

At the moment, the site is even more fun to read if you have Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice playing in your head at the same time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice_(Du...

fiaz17년 전

I must say I was thoroughly confused a minute ago...I thought it was some bizarre Erlang spam-bot that had attacked HN.

markessien17년 전

If I were pg, I'd try to find out how obedient HN users are. I'd write - now 'ADA', wait 3 hours then 'EVERYONE Lisp!", wait an hour, then 'Machine Code!" and so on...

tsally17년 전

Well, it was definitely good for a laugh, but not much else. Honestly what's worse, a few new inexperienced users or a completely irrelevant front page for a few days? I'd rather deal with the users. Hopefully the moderators can take care of this flood :-).

I suggest eliminating karma awarded for the recent submissions and associated comments, plus increase their gravity factor in the Arc code so they fall off the front page faster.

dhimes17년 전

I suggest eliminating karma awarded for the recent submissions and associated comments, plus increase their gravity factor in the Arc code so they fall off the front page faster.

I vote we just let it all die a natural death, and not mess with the experiment that is Hacker News.

herdrick17년 전

Finally, finally, the HN community has done a group joke. I'm glad.

aaronblohowiak17년 전

It was fun for a day, and now that we've done it, in the interests of DRY, hopefully we won't have any further.

herdrick17년 전

It'd been a lot better if the joke didn't involve the entire front page.

gojomo17년 전

I was going to mock up a fake story, "Hot Girl Seeks Erlang Innards Private Tutoring", but thought better of it.

trickjarrett17년 전

Hey, how do you know it's affected by pg's statement? Maybe it's just coincidence!

sidsavara17년 전

PG's statement may or may not have caused the flood of Erlang submissions, but I did see a strong positive correlation ;)

http://xkcd.com/552/

dfield17년 전

Correlation does not imply causation ;)

amichail17년 전

URGENT: Please read if you have any information about Tony Morris

http://www.nabble.com/-scala--URGENT%3A-Please-read-if-you-h...

Also please upvote this submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512491

sidsavara17년 전

I reposted your submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512587

I think your original is too old, so it's fallen off the new page - which means not in front of enough eyeballs to get voted up and likely won't make the front page at that rate.

kirubakaran17년 전

Honeypot caught a dozen in an hour

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512351

biohacker4217년 전

I agree, but I'd still encourage everyone to upvote hardcore hacker interest topics.

If in the past you might have ignored a Haskell article because you've tried it and you like Erlang better, upvote it now.

If in the past you might have upvoted a borderline HN article, consider leaving it alone now.

haseman17년 전

Maybe, deep down inside, every programmer here has an obsession with Erlang...and just needs an excuse to submit/promote articles about it.

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