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Comment by boundlessdreamz | Hacker News Reader

This is pure whining. If you don't like the articles on HN

1. upvote articles you like

2. Submit more articles you like

You have submitted just 3 stories to HN (excluding this) http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dag and frankly the story about warren buffet is not HN material and the fashion article is also not hard core HN material.So you want others to find articles you like and upvote them and not do the work yourself.

I would have given a point by point rebuttal of how many stories you have marked as insignificant was in fact interesting but it seems like you have already made up your mind. So good luck. Try joining/making another community

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I doubt he'd have much luck elsewhere. By his own graphic he had no objection to 50% of the articles and honestly that's a pretty good return rate all-in-all. No community is ever going to exactly reflect any one person's likes and dislikes. Especially a community as large as HN.

Any site that can produce 15+ interesting articles a day in exchange for the roughly minute and a half it takes to skim the HN headlines is doing great in my book.

It's not that I like 50% and don't like 50%, rather I think that one or two years ago 50% of these would never have been submitted to HN.

1. upvote articles you like

2. Submit more articles you like

I am surprised people keep offering this as a solution. Isn't it obvious that if MORE people upvote and submit other stories like politics, then politics we will have?

Isn't it obvious that majority rules?

hmm ? "majority rules". How can that be not obvious? It is called a community. The advice is to do something about it rather than just complain. More often than not the people who complain (like dag) have not contributed much articles. If i remember a pg comments only 10% of the users visit the new page. And something like 4 votes are often enough to put an article on frontpage.

I wonder how much upvoting of new articles happens by the people who complain. The only publicly available metric for contribution to articles is submissions and dag certainly hasn't contributed enough. So yeah, the advice still stands.

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