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sidsavara
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."

fiaz
I must say I was thoroughly confused a minute ago...I thought it was some bizarre Erlang spam-bot that had attacked HN.
trickjarrett
Hey, how do you know it's affected by pg's statement? Maybe it's just coincidence!
dfield
Correlation does not imply causation ;)
sidsavara
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/

tsally
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.

dhimes
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.

biohacker42
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.

amichail
URGENT: Please read if you have any information about Tony Morris

http://www.nabble.com/-scala--URGENT%3A-Please-read-if-you-h...

Also please upvote this submission:

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

sidsavara
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.

haseman
Maybe, deep down inside, every programmer here has an obsession with Erlang...and just needs an excuse to submit/promote articles about it.
herdrick
Finally, finally, the HN community has done a group joke. I'm glad.
aaronblohowiak
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.
herdrick
It'd been a lot better if the joke didn't involve the entire front page.
gojomo
I was going to mock up a fake story, "Hot Girl Seeks Erlang Innards Private Tutoring", but thought better of it.
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markessien
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...