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Ask HN: Please stop.

16 points by reduxredacted ↗ HN
I credit the community for deciding that an appropriate protest would have to revolve around Erlang. It could only, really, happen here (...twice?).

Seriously, though, if it's true that the origination of this protest is a few fluff pieces, can we agree that a handful of fluff pieces is better than two pages of ... whatever you want to call this?

I enjoy Hacker News because individuals that participate in the site act more like a community of geeks, not a mob.

Forgetting the community: contributing fluff to combat fluff on a resource you love is sort of like getting into a fist fight with yourself. In the end, you've lost.

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movix
I'm a geek, but I don't know a line of code to save my life. Does this make me a non-hacker? The wrong kind of poster? I lurk here because the threads, especially anything YC/VC/Start-up, are really informative and genuinely useful. The Erlang thing is a yawn, even though I have no idea what it's about. I'm with the OP, sure it was funny, but maybe time to move on.
reduxredacted
I find that I can visit this site daily and find a good six or seven things worth reading ... all done without salacious headlines.

I don't think the bar is set at coder, programmer or developer. I don't run, nor do I desire to run a start-up, but I read plenty about them here because the quality of submissions generally means I'm going to enjoy the post. And the items that fall into the "non-startup, non-development" category are often very interesting...even the ones I disagree with philosophically are often good reads.

I wonder what makes a hacker, exactly?