"He" would be Michael Arrington, the person who put it on the front page of TC. If he's an actual community member here, then he should have realized that was a stupid thing to do, for the sake of the news and comment quality on Hacker News, and not to have done it.
Do you think Arrington values the community here more than the community reading TC, his own community? Adding value for his readers should be his first priority.
First off, he's referring them to a site that competes with his own, which very well may cause some users to switch over. That isn't too far of a stretch for my imagination, seeing as N.YC has much higher comment quality and community cohesion.
Second, if the TC users came here and destroyed the signal to noise ratio we currently enjoy, he would have done them a disservice by recommending a web site that was so quickly destroyed after they all discovered it. Of course, few of them would likely realize that they, themselves, were the cause of the downturn.
Clearly neither of those seem like they're going to happen, based on the referral numbers that Paul posted so far, but it was a more feasible option when I made my earlier post.
Of course, that's only up to the point that the "smarter people" stop tolerating the dilution and leave, thus leaving the TC members in the exact same position as before.
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With as much as we complain about how much noobs will change the site, why did he go off and do a stupid thing like put this on the front page of TC?
SND = Slow News Day.
Who is "he?" Arrington runs TC. PG doesn't put anything on the frontpage of TC.
"He" would be Michael Arrington, the person who put it on the front page of TC. If he's an actual community member here, then he should have realized that was a stupid thing to do, for the sake of the news and comment quality on Hacker News, and not to have done it.
Do you think Arrington values the community here more than the community reading TC, his own community? Adding value for his readers should be his first priority.
What value is he adding for his users?
First off, he's referring them to a site that competes with his own, which very well may cause some users to switch over. That isn't too far of a stretch for my imagination, seeing as N.YC has much higher comment quality and community cohesion.
Second, if the TC users came here and destroyed the signal to noise ratio we currently enjoy, he would have done them a disservice by recommending a web site that was so quickly destroyed after they all discovered it. Of course, few of them would likely realize that they, themselves, were the cause of the downturn.
Clearly neither of those seem like they're going to happen, based on the referral numbers that Paul posted so far, but it was a more feasible option when I made my earlier post.
Even if the community here is "diluted" with TC members, it is a net positive effect for techcrunchers to get smarter people to talk with.
Of course, that's only up to the point that the "smarter people" stop tolerating the dilution and leave, thus leaving the TC members in the exact same position as before.