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Ask SN: what are some good examples of posting guidelines?

88 sats \ 7 comments \ @k00b 12 Feb 2022 bitcoin

I've had several users ask for them. We have an issue up from @abetusk on gh: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/47

Hacker News' guidelines are an obvious place to start, but anyone know of any other good ones?

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10 sats \ 5 replies \ @freetx 13 Feb 2022

On paper, HN guidelines sound great, in practice it fails pretty badly (I mean it fails even at HN)

I totally understand not wanting a site to devolve into constant left-right brigades...however trying to separate money (or tech) from politics is going to be hard to accomplish....politics is money, and the federal reserve is political...

I think one thing that must be answered before you continue is exactly what is your vision? Is SN going to compete with a generalized Reddit? Or is this place essentially the equivalent of a BTC/LN specific HN?

Both have pros and cons. The cons of these narrow focused themes is that they never last.... Its possible to imagine in 1993 a SN clone that focused solely on "HTTP News"...however its impossible to imagine such a site lasting until today.

Paradoxically, as a narrow bit of tech grows, it becomes so ubiquitous that its no longer worthwhile to even talk about....

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 13 Feb 2022

I'm not against politics being on here personally, but the general thresholds of being interesting and civil seem reasonable. That's why I was asking for more examples - so I could borrow what makes sense from each.

To answer your question, SN will at some future point will probably end up looking more like Reddit than HN so that sub-communities can form with their own topics and guidelines.

15 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 13 Feb 2022

more like Reddit than HN

yeah, personally I find the idea of a reddit minus the orwellian elements to be attractive. The addition of "sats = voting" provides an interesting change. It won't make paid astroturfing go away, but will make it more transparent...and perhaps thats the best that can be hoped for.

Ultimately having "sub-stacks" would help diffuse the paid astroturfing (if and when that becomes a problem) and to segment off the largest shills into their appropriate segments (politics, crypto trading, etc).