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0 pointsjacquesm11y ago0 comments

That's the attitude that they say murdered wikipedia. Rules are there to foster a better community, not to kill off good community initiatives. As soon as the adherence to the rules becomes more important than the quality of the product you've basically lost it. The whole trick is to know when not to apply the rules. AMAs are an exceptional item and a different ruleset for AMAs would not be all that hard to imagine. Pity.

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debacle11y ago

Reddit hasn't been about community in about a year, and /r/IAmA is a huge part of that. It's a huge profit center for reddit and they moderate it heavily.

jebus98911y ago

"Murdered" Wikipedia whose fifth pillar is "ignore all rules"?

jacquesmOP11y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612638

http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism

And many others like it.

jebus98911y ago

Sure editor numbers are in decline, that doesn't support your point. Ignore All Rules is one of the fundamental principles the site was founded on.

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DanBC11y ago

Wikipedia has spent many megabytes of text to argue about hyphen, minus, en-dash, and em-dash.

These arguments (different arguments among different people) spread over diffferent pages and different spaces. They happened on article talk pages; in meta space (village pump, the WP manual of style); in admin spaces (ANI); even with some ARBCOM case.

There's easily 500,000 words about hyphen, minus, en-dash and em-dash on wikipedia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8600342

grecy11y ago

> fifth pillar is "ignore all rules"?

Go and make some useful edits and see how that works out for you. Rules are strictly enforced above all else.

jebus98911y ago

Unsure of how much editing you've done but I've made over 10,000 edits over the past 9 years and that's not been my experience (google my HN username + wikipedia).

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debacle11y ago

Reddit hasn't been about community in about a year, and /r/IAmA is a huge part of that. It's a huge profit center for reddit and they moderate it heavily.

jebus98911y ago

"Murdered" Wikipedia whose fifth pillar is "ignore all rules"?

jacquesmOP11y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612638

http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism

And many others like it.

jebus98911y ago

Sure editor numbers are in decline, that doesn't support your point. Ignore All Rules is one of the fundamental principles the site was founded on.

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DanBC11y ago

Wikipedia has spent many megabytes of text to argue about hyphen, minus, en-dash, and em-dash.

There's easily 500,000 words about hyphen, minus, en-dash and em-dash on wikipedia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8600342

grecy11y ago

> fifth pillar is "ignore all rules"?

Go and make some useful edits and see how that works out for you. Rules are strictly enforced above all else.

jebus98911y ago

Unsure of how much editing you've done but I've made over 10,000 edits over the past 9 years and that's not been my experience (google my HN username + wikipedia).

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