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Comment by rplnt | Hacker News Reader

Why is this at the top of HN now?

Do you find this idea to be that revolutionary? (I guess not as someone linked other similar project (and you downvoted him))

Do you find this project in particular to be that interesting? (Doubt it with the scope of this project)

Not to take anything away from the effort that went into creating this, but judging from the history of (Show HN) posts that reach the front page, this is HIGHLY unusual.

Also of interest is the number of emoticons /:)/ in here - 25% of comments contain one, compared to other Show HN posts with 8.3%, 6% or general posts with 1.5%, 0.5%, 0%, ...

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There's nothing wrong with posting a learning project as a Show HN. There's a long tradition of doing so, and in this case the submission title made it super clear.

I'm afraid it's your comment that's out of line. I don't think you intended it this way (and we appreciate your concern for the quality of HN), but in this context it comes across as squashing someone for their work, which combined with the automatic upvotes that negative comments sadly get, gives a rude and unpleasant impression of this community. Who would want to be part of a place that disses beginners?

I interpreted this post as being addressed to HN upvoters, not the poster.

wrt "dissing beginners", the post explicitly says: "Not to take anything away from the effort that went into creating this".

The reason posts like this are upvoted is to protect discourse from the neg-police.

Implying that upvotes weren't legitimate is taking something away from the post, so saying one isn't doing that just adds incongruence.

I was actually implying that the submission was not upvoted solely because of its content. Because, let's be frank, the content is not worth to be the top submission on HN when compared to what one can usually find there. Even the "learning" angle does not cut it.

And it's not getting anything away from the post, rather from the praise it got. The post itself is perfectly fine (and as such I didn't flag it).

> Why is this at the top of HN now?

Personally I flagged this - there are good sites for codereview e.g. http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ but I don't think HN is, or should be one of them.

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link. If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. (Not all users see flag links; there's a small karma threshold.)

Quality is multi-dimensional.

I wasn't complaining about the submission itself, but rather the fact that it was the top post at the moment.

It didn't really meet the "In Comments" section of the Show HN guidelines, either: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I don't know, there are still people around here thinking that a web/mobile application can change the world ...

The upvoting of this submission seems rigged indeed.

I looked at the data and did not see that. Assuming that voting is "rigged" on a submission just because you don't approve of it is nearly always a non sequitur.

Also, please don't create many obscure throwaway accounts on HN. This forum is a community. Anonymity is fine, but users should have some consistent identity that other users can relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be an entirely different forum.

Why is Trump the Republican nominee?

To answer these questions, we must only look into the mirror.

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