I think a subtle issue here is that they see SN as another forum, but some of the posts here are more like blog posts than forum posts.

Not sure how to thread that needle, but I always did think that SN's most viable growth path is as a Substack alternative, and as a Disqus-style plugin.

SimpleStacker

I think @ek ran that bot.  Now that he doesn't work for SN he probably didn't think the bot was worth running anymore.

Cunt bags 

there is or used to user named hn or hacker news

update: last post was on Jan 4, https://stacker.news/hn/all

Bell_curve

I posted a link to one of the Tether pieces I wrote.

They were very reasonable, but this is still a symptom of what SN fixes, I think. Forums like Hacker News have to be careful not to allow content from other forums because it may lead to lots of posting trying to cannibalize their readers (which to an extent 

If we are able to shift the world to a pay-to-post model, perhaps this isn't as much of an issue. Although, I admit this is a difficult problem to solve.

A response to SolomonSatoshi: I don't think Stacker News is about v4v

Scoresby

![](https://m.stacker.news/130530)

I posted a link to one of the Tether pieces I wrote. 

They were very reasonable, but this is still a symptom of what SN fixes, I think. Forums like Hacker News have to be careful not to allow content from other forums because it may lead to lots of posting trying to cannibalize their readers (which to an extent *was* what I was trying to do). 

If we are able to shift the world to a pay-to-post model, perhaps this isn't as much of an issue. Although, I admit this is a difficult problem to solve.