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>>gaika+(OP)
allow me to summarize: giles bowkett is impolite on social sites such as this one, therefore they're all doomed. also, there are people on the internet that cause him trouble, like tim bray and cory doctorow.

whew, such a heady brew of straight-up TRVTH that guy is dishing out. i'm still reeling from the force of it.

>>allenb+W
Have you read the post? You missed the most important 3 paragraphs in the middle about repeating the mistakes of slashdot, digg, reddit.

Tell me, what is news.YC doing to not repeat the same mistakes?

>>gaika+71
1. The kind of stories that are most popular on reddit and digg (pictures and politics) are banned here.

2. Because that kind of stuff is banned, the average digg/reddit reader, if he comes across News.YC, finds the content boring and leaves.

3. The custom of the site is to be civil in comments.

4. Votes on comments affect karma.

5. Trolls are fairly rapidly banned. The only reason Giles hasn't already been banned is that I thought perhaps he was joking.

>>pg+x2
> 2. Because that kind of stuff is banned, the average digg/reddit reader, if he comes across News.YC, finds the content boring and leaves.

Yesterday we had both a "global warming" story, and a "you can't soak the rich" story. Those kinds of things are far more interesting and accessible to random non hackers, than say, this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196425

>>davidw+H3
I voted up the Can't Soak the Rich story. It's a very interesting idea that tax revenues are a roughly constant fraction of the GDP. Not all stories about politically charged topics are merely political stories.