Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding parts of this, I am laying in bed right now going through my daily wind-down and slowly falling into "sleep mode".
It sounds like one of your gripes is that the post about Copenhagen showed up on reddit, then immediately showed up here. This is not a valid complain, I'm sorry.
Reddit and HN are completely different types of communities. To complain that a story appeared on reddit, then appeared here completely disregards the fact that many people that read HN no longer visit reddit.
As far as the story you were whining about (and yes, you were whining), it absolutely is relevant to the HN community (at least from what I'm seen in the last 1.5 years or so here). HN seems to be comprised mostly of people who have a very strong interest in sciences of all kinds. This is why psychology, neuroscience, physics, chemistry, and computer science articles make the front page and that is why HN is seeing such a strong uptick in usership.
Your comment was originally downmodded because it was contributing absolutely nothing to the discussion regardless of how many people responded to you (I'm talking about the one stating that the copenhagen story had already appeared on reddit).
I guess to summarize: you were downmodded because your comment, which contributed nothing to the discussion, pointed out something that most people found completely irrelevant.
What you saw was the moderation system working perfectly.
> It sounds like one of your gripes is that the post about Copenhagen showed up on reddit, then immediately showed up here. This is not a valid complain, I'm sorry.
My complaint is that a clearly political post is showing up on HN. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
My second complaint is that for going through to trouble to point this out, I get my karma hammered.
> Reddit and HN are completely different types of communities. To complain that a story appeared on reddit, then appeared here completely disregards the fact that many people that read HN no longer visit reddit.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I don't think your comments have contributed much to discussion either.
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Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding parts of this, I am laying in bed right now going through my daily wind-down and slowly falling into "sleep mode".
It sounds like one of your gripes is that the post about Copenhagen showed up on reddit, then immediately showed up here. This is not a valid complain, I'm sorry.
Reddit and HN are completely different types of communities. To complain that a story appeared on reddit, then appeared here completely disregards the fact that many people that read HN no longer visit reddit.
As far as the story you were whining about (and yes, you were whining), it absolutely is relevant to the HN community (at least from what I'm seen in the last 1.5 years or so here). HN seems to be comprised mostly of people who have a very strong interest in sciences of all kinds. This is why psychology, neuroscience, physics, chemistry, and computer science articles make the front page and that is why HN is seeing such a strong uptick in usership.
Your comment was originally downmodded because it was contributing absolutely nothing to the discussion regardless of how many people responded to you (I'm talking about the one stating that the copenhagen story had already appeared on reddit).
I guess to summarize: you were downmodded because your comment, which contributed nothing to the discussion, pointed out something that most people found completely irrelevant.
What you saw was the moderation system working perfectly.
> It sounds like one of your gripes is that the post about Copenhagen showed up on reddit, then immediately showed up here. This is not a valid complain, I'm sorry.
My complaint is that a clearly political post is showing up on HN. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
My second complaint is that for going through to trouble to point this out, I get my karma hammered.
> Reddit and HN are completely different types of communities. To complain that a story appeared on reddit, then appeared here completely disregards the fact that many people that read HN no longer visit reddit.
That is absolutely correct. As per: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I don't think your comments have contributed much to discussion either.
My complaint is that a clearly political post is showing up on HN. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Hence, it was downvoted; it was noise.