Ask HN: Why There Is No Ask Me Anything on Hacker News?
Why there is no Ask Me Anything on HackerNews?
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[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/
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[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/
People are free to post anything they want on Hacker News, it's then up to the community, via upvotes and downvotes to decide if they want to see it. If you don't see AMA on Hacker News it's because people who read Hacker News, in aggregate, don't want to see AMA on Hacker News.
Simple.
How is running AMA polluting this place?
> don't want to see AMA on Hacker News
Are you sure that all the AMA buried instead of not just happening?
I don't get your hostility toward AMA.
"we are the developers behind service_x, ask us anything"
2) As others have said, it usually ends up being advertising or serving some other agenda. It takes time and effort to respond to AMA questions, so most hosts only do it because they think they can get something of greater value, and that also rewards doing the bare minimum such as only answering easy questions or closing the AMA after a fairly short time.
3) Reddit and HN have drastically different cultures - while small subreddits might be ok, any large reddit community quickly devolves to the point intelligent conversation is impossible through a thick miasma of 'ironic' shitposting, juvenile humour, and general idiocy. You can't import cultural features from somewhere like that without risking harm to HN. I don't want it to turn into another Reddit.
Because I have no interest in reading them, so from my point of view they would be polluting the newsfeed and making it more difficult to find interesting articles.
> Are you sure that all the AMA buried instead of not just happening?
If they are getting buried then that would kind of prove my point that readers of HN don't want to see them here.
> I don't get your hostility toward AMA.
I'm not hostile, I just have no personal interest in them. As I said, Reddit is the perfect place for them because those who want to read them can go the AMA sub Reddit and read them and those who don't can ignore them. Then everyone is happy.
TBH I don't really understand why you would want them on HN. Surely it's better for those who like them for them to be on a sub Reddit. That way, when you fancy reading an AMA you can just go to the sub Reddit and browse AMA's to your hearts content.
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