On 3/4/2014 10:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 3/4/14, 7:16 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 3/4/14, 6:49 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> I think mentioning registration discounts in the title was not helpful.
>>> I think a better title would have been "D programming language 2014
>>> conference: schedule announced" or something like that.
>>
>> Trying again:
>>
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7340645
>>
>> Vote up!
>
> Apparently this post didn't get deleted, right? But it clearly didn't make it to
> the big leagues, I see it in position 205 now.

That one got marked as 'dead' too.

Hackernews is mostly a Go site. I'd be very surprised if they deleted a Go conference announcement.

On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 21:12:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/4/2014 10:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> Apparently this post didn't get deleted, right? But it clearly didn't make it to
>> the big leagues, I see it in position 205 now.
>
> That one got marked as 'dead' too.
>
> Hackernews is mostly a Go site. I'd be very surprised if they deleted a Go conference announcement.

Hacker News goes through language phases. Ruby, CoffeeScript, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, and now Go have all had turns being the darling language by the Hacker News community. It lasts a few months then people get bored and move on to the next thing. D may get a turn, it may not. They are a very fickle community. When Go was first announced it was almost universally panned on Hacker News.

Power users on Hacker News have more power than they probably should (often doing things like changing headlines to be less helpful but more cool sounding). If a post gets 10 "flags" before it gets 10 upvotes it'll be killed.

Anyway, there's my little rant about Hacker News. I still go there daily :)

On 3/4/2014 1:30 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> Anyway, there's my little rant about Hacker News. I still go there daily :)

I do, too, but I gave up posting links there.

On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 21:12:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> That one got marked as 'dead' too.
>
> Hackernews is mostly a Go site. I'd be very surprised if they deleted a Go conference announcement.

Something seems weird here. It might be worth emailing the maintainers and asking why it keeps getting removed. I'd do it, but I doubt they would pay much attention to an anonymous D fan.

On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 22:42:34 UTC, Meta wrote:
> but I doubt they would pay much attention to an anonymous D fan.

Probably not any less than the original submitter.

I can't say I like the moderation choices /r/programming makes, they seem to suck if you don't have lots of rep.

On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 23:35:25 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 22:42:34 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> but I doubt they would pay much attention to an anonymous D fan.
>
> Probably not any less than the original submitter.
>
> I can't say I like the moderation choices /r/programming makes, they seem to suck if you don't have lots of rep.

As opposed to Walter Bright, I mean.

On 3/4/14, 1:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/4/2014 10:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 3/4/14, 7:16 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 3/4/14, 6:49 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>>> I think mentioning registration discounts in the title was not helpful.
>>>> I think a better title would have been "D programming language 2014
>>>> conference: schedule announced" or something like that.
>>>
>>> Trying again:
>>>
>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7340645
>>>
>>> Vote up!
>>
>> Apparently this post didn't get deleted, right? But it clearly didn't
>> make it to
>> the big leagues, I see it in position 205 now.
>
> That one got marked as 'dead' too.
>
> Hackernews is mostly a Go site. I'd be very surprised if they deleted a
> Go conference announcement.

I don't think there's a conspiracy there.

Andrei

On 3/4/14, 2:42 PM, Meta wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 21:12:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> That one got marked as 'dead' too.
>>
>> Hackernews is mostly a Go site. I'd be very surprised if they deleted
>> a Go conference announcement.
>
> Something seems weird here. It might be worth emailing the maintainers
> and asking why it keeps getting removed. I'd do it, but I doubt they
> would pay much attention to an anonymous D fan.

There's one way to find out.

Andrei

On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 at 00:21:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 3/4/14, 1:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/4/2014 10:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 3/4/14, 7:16 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> On 3/4/14, 6:49 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>>>> I think mentioning registration discounts in the title was not helpful.
>>>>> I think a better title would have been "D programming language 2014
>>>>> conference: schedule announced" or something like that.
>>>>
>>>> Trying again:
>>>>
>>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7340645
>>>>
>>>> Vote up!
>>>
>>> Apparently this post didn't get deleted, right? But it clearly didn't
>>> make it to
>>> the big leagues, I see it in position 205 now.
>>
>> That one got marked as 'dead' too.
>>
>> Hackernews is mostly a Go site. I'd be very surprised if they deleted a
>> Go conference announcement.
>
> I don't think there's a conspiracy there.
>
> Andrei

Apparently Hacker News has protections against votes via referrals from a single site. Never give out a direct link to a post and ask folks to upvote it. Instead, link to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest as soon as you post, and ask folks to vote via that.

Brendan

On 3/5/14, 1:56 AM, Brendan Zabarauskas wrote:
> Apparently Hacker News has protections against votes via referrals from
> a single site. Never give out a direct link to a post and ask folks to
> upvote it. Instead, link to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest as soon
> as you post, and ask folks to vote via that.
>
> Brendan

Great tip, thanks!

Andrei