Yeah, because Hacker News readers really feel entitled. Where is this arrogance you claim to see, and how is it different from any other web site online?
It's not different in that respect from other websites. People on other sites appear to feel the same asinine sense of entitlement: that the site should be run transparently, that their feature requests should be considered carefully and implemented if possible, etc etc.
I'm not saying you're like that personally, but I think the trend is pretty hard to miss.
That's why I said "different from any other site online." I don't think we're any more entitled princesses than Redditors or Diggers, though.
I don't feel entitled to good service on HN (and thank God, because we sure don't get it), but I think it would be nice to have. If Hacker News could somehow turn itself into a competitive start-up, I'd like that, because I do think this site suffers from a lot of things.
People say exactly --- I mean EXACTLY --- the same thing about Craigslist every day, and Craig Newmark keeps saying "anything I add to the site could take away from it in some other way", and there you have it; Times New Roman, browser-default <a> listings in non-semantic, hard-to-scrape lists, etc.
I don't use Craigslist, but HN is not the same sort of site at all. There are features that would add positively to HN that wouldn't detract anything from it.
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Because, as I said last time, what Hacker News needs most of all is a bigger sense of entitlement among its users.
Yeah, because Hacker News readers really feel entitled. Where is this arrogance you claim to see, and how is it different from any other web site online?
It's not different in that respect from other websites. People on other sites appear to feel the same asinine sense of entitlement: that the site should be run transparently, that their feature requests should be considered carefully and implemented if possible, etc etc.
I'm not saying you're like that personally, but I think the trend is pretty hard to miss.
That's why I said "different from any other site online." I don't think we're any more entitled princesses than Redditors or Diggers, though.
I don't feel entitled to good service on HN (and thank God, because we sure don't get it), but I think it would be nice to have. If Hacker News could somehow turn itself into a competitive start-up, I'd like that, because I do think this site suffers from a lot of things.
People say exactly --- I mean EXACTLY --- the same thing about Craigslist every day, and Craig Newmark keeps saying "anything I add to the site could take away from it in some other way", and there you have it; Times New Roman, browser-default <a> listings in non-semantic, hard-to-scrape lists, etc.
I don't use Craigslist, but HN is not the same sort of site at all. There are features that would add positively to HN that wouldn't detract anything from it.