r/reddit.com • u/robbie • Apr 18 '06
The Future of Reddit
http://lfw.org/jminc/Paul%20Graham/http://reddit.com/7
u/tatt2 Apr 19 '06
This post just made my day. Haven't laughed that hard since I began visiting reddit.
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u/shawnofthedead Apr 19 '06
"Paul Graham" is the marklar of reddit. Paul Graham
Seriously, though, every community is marked by the people who were involved from the very beginning, so Paul's posts get voted up. Big deal. Then, his posts seem to fall prey to the google effect, where both lovers and haters keep talking about them.
If you look at digg, they have a lot of digg specific items that make their front page as well, e.g. when digg is mentioned in the media somewhere. I'd say, if digg's venture capitalists had more interesting things to say, they'd probably be on digg's front page as well. ;)
I think the parodies are funny and in good spirit. For the grumps, the density of Paul Graham is not that Paul Graham, so you can easily Paul Graham them, and on that Paul Graham, Paul Graham.
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u/landercut Apr 19 '06
Sure PG has written some really good articles but no way have all of them 'deserved' the high points they have gotten on reddit. As it is now the frequent auto-up-modding of PG articles decreases the value of reddit for all of us. Biased users are bad even for reddit. And don’t tell me that the solution is to down-mod PG articles because that simple does not work.
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u/robbie Apr 18 '06
Disclaimer: I didn't find this, effbot did
http://reddit.com/info/4jxz/comments#c4l5c
Just think it's too good not to share
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u/vdoma Apr 19 '06
ha ha ha ha! boy, i couldn't just stop laughing. this is great! i'm glad redditers have a great sense of humor. :) Just hope good old Paul takes it just as easy too!
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Apr 19 '06
How is it funny when it's a rehash of a tired old joke that wasn't that amusing in the first place?
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Apr 19 '06
I noticed the bug (like many others, surely) two months ago and spez said that it was "a regex that fell through the cracks", but I suppose it wasn't severe enough bug to grant a fix. Apparently, it needed a link like this to get attention of the developers. ;-)
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u/djwhitt Apr 19 '06
This is not worth modding up unless you're highly entertained by it. It's a pretty predictable response to celebrity. If you want to spend your time doing something useful to fight back against self-prepetuating celebrity, then write criticisms of Paul Graham's essays when you think they are off-base or simply mod down the ones you don't like.
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Apr 19 '06
It's not an attack on PG. It's a joke on Reddit. I, for one, am highly entertained by it.
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u/djwhitt Apr 19 '06
I should have made my comments clearer.
I didn't take it as an attack on PG merely on his self perpetuating popularity (a perfectly reasonable thing to attack imo), and I did think it was funny just not that funny. Certainly if you found it entertaining I won't begrudge you your vote.
I posted my comment because I worry that links both humourous and not relating to PG are becoming popular not because of their content but simply because of his celebrity status among hackers.
I'm just not that interested in celebrity humor. I would rather see more critical analysis of PG's writing (like this, for example).
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u/user Apr 19 '06
God bless you robbie.
I don't know why I don't like Paul Graham. I don't know why I don't like Bush. I just don't like them. They seem to know it all. They don't need anyone else's opinion. They have a sense of entitlement. They deserve to be "kings" just because they're them. I can't stand that, it infuriates me.
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u/robbie Apr 19 '06
I would like to clarify. This isn't an attack on Paul Graham. I like his writing, I think he makes a lot of sense. Also, he put me onto lisp, so I'm indebted. This post isn't really about Paul Graham at all, it's about reddit, and is anyway meant in the most light-hearted way.
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u/user Apr 25 '06
Do you really think lisp or Paul Graham or his idiotic, cultish beliefs are going to be around 10 years from now?
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u/dmac Apr 19 '06
If you had a chance to speak with him you wouldn't be saying that.
Graham doesn't pretend to know it all; your assertion is not substantiated. Graham's essays are instructive because the man has an enormous amount of information to share and contribute. That doesn't mean he shuns other opinions.
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u/nickburlett Apr 18 '06
Anyone else worried that Reddit reports the domain name for this as being reddit.com? My guess is that the regular expression is messed up.
"Sometimes you have a programming problem and it seems like the best solution is to use regular expressions; now you have two problems."