The comments of a submission are valuable to those other than the participants. To readers that don't or won't comment, the concept of 'live active discussion' is moot. In fact, I could argue that it's most beneficial for a reader to wait until the comment activities die down.
Either way the link to another similar thread is an odd thing to be tired of.
Off topic, but why does Google return "About 187,000 results" for ("* is about to *" site:wired.com) and only "About 14,600 results" for ("is about to" site:wired.com)?
>No, because when you bookmark you have to remember to go back to your list of bookmarks to re-read the article
I have a folder on my bookmark bar titled "Articles". When I don't have time to read an interesting article I see, I add it to that folder. When I'm bored and can't find anything to read, I open that folder.
I'd argue that most people's pain point isn't lack of remembering they have articles saved to read.
Alcohol makes me sleepy and lose the ability to concentrate. I have no idea why people enjoy drinking when they're trying to get stuff done. Especially if any of that "stuff" requires significant brain power.
Apps like candy crush are edge cases that make general comparisons meaningless.
Given most successful apps aren't anywhere near as popular as candy crush you're not comparing apples to apples.
The chances of building a successful anything are low. Even lower for the first attempt. So if you take 2 years to build something...you've stacked the odds so high against yourself you might as well not even try. And if you're the one paying the bills, 2 years is a long time to wait for a failure.
Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to [email protected].
Could not agree more. It's unfortunately a common (and obviously automated) way to get page views. Extremely aggravating.
Put a list of related articles at the end. But don't underline terms like "radiation pressure" and expect me be happy when you don't immediately tell me what that is. And especially don't put the article I'm reading as the first result.
It provides OP, and others, with information as to why it was useless to help prevent future useless comments, improving the overall comment quality of Hacker News. Albeit, my method was crass.
Either way the link to another similar thread is an odd thing to be tired of.