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Comment by lacker | Hacker News Reader

Personally, I don't care to read meta posts about HN itself. I would rather read "news for hackers" and not "news about Hacker News." So I am glad that thread got killed, and I would like all these threads complaining about the moderation policy to also get killed. I suspect this view is the "silent majority", because most people who think that way just won't read these meta posts, and will just silently note that there are a lot of boring self-referential stories on HN.

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Meta posts about HN itself are useful if they help improve the quality of HN down the line. I don't come here to read "news about Hacker News", but if the news about Hacker News thread helps frontpage content become more relevant, clearer, or more interesting, that's a net win.

IMO, we need appropriately descriptive headlines. Sometimes there's a little too much spin and moderators should step in to fix it, but sometimes moderators step in and worsen the problem; that's a legitimate issue to solve for the benefit of HN.

Nobody forces you to click the links and read them, pass over them and click the ones you want to read.. Like stated before, that subject got 427 upvotes, apparently it's a big concern of many users of the community.

I don't want to name call anyone here, but just as full disclosure from your hn bio: Founder of Parse (YC S2011) and Gamador (YC W2010).

- Submitter of one of the threads you want to get killed.

I think HN should take a page from SO, and introduce meta.news.ycombinator.com and chat.news.ycombinator.com. Then again, there are lots of things I'd change about HN, but it's not my site and it's free.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

-- Margaret Mead

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/33522.html

I agree. Moderators, know that if you kill this thread too, you have my support. HN isn't a democracy, and anyone who thinks the readers somehow own it is welcome to go somewhere else.

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