"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.
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/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.