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PG Says: Guys, that's enough with the Erlang submissions

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It was fun while it lasted ;)

Or, incredibly confusing if you had no idea where it came from. PG's actual words are hilarious:

"Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral Genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine."

At the moment, the site is even more fun to read if you have Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice playing in your head at the same time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice_(Du...

I must say I was thoroughly confused a minute ago...I thought it was some bizarre Erlang spam-bot that had attacked HN.

If I were pg, I'd try to find out how obedient HN users are. I'd write - now 'ADA', wait 3 hours then 'EVERYONE Lisp!", wait an hour, then 'Machine Code!" and so on...

Well, it was definitely good for a laugh, but not much else. Honestly what's worse, a few new inexperienced users or a completely irrelevant front page for a few days? I'd rather deal with the users. Hopefully the moderators can take care of this flood :-).

I suggest eliminating karma awarded for the recent submissions and associated comments, plus increase their gravity factor in the Arc code so they fall off the front page faster.

I suggest eliminating karma awarded for the recent submissions and associated comments, plus increase their gravity factor in the Arc code so they fall off the front page faster.

I vote we just let it all die a natural death, and not mess with the experiment that is Hacker News.

Finally, finally, the HN community has done a group joke. I'm glad.

It was fun for a day, and now that we've done it, in the interests of DRY, hopefully we won't have any further.

It'd been a lot better if the joke didn't involve the entire front page.

I was going to mock up a fake story, "Hot Girl Seeks Erlang Innards Private Tutoring", but thought better of it.

Hey, how do you know it's affected by pg's statement? Maybe it's just coincidence!

PG's statement may or may not have caused the flood of Erlang submissions, but I did see a strong positive correlation ;)

http://xkcd.com/552/

Correlation does not imply causation ;)

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Also please upvote this submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512491

I reposted your submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512587

I think your original is too old, so it's fallen off the new page - which means not in front of enough eyeballs to get voted up and likely won't make the front page at that rate.

Honeypot caught a dozen in an hour

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512351

I agree, but I'd still encourage everyone to upvote hardcore hacker interest topics.

If in the past you might have ignored a Haskell article because you've tried it and you like Erlang better, upvote it now.

If in the past you might have upvoted a borderline HN article, consider leaving it alone now.

Maybe, deep down inside, every programmer here has an obsession with Erlang...and just needs an excuse to submit/promote articles about it.

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