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For a community-driven site without a clear statement of intent, 'having a number of upvotes' == 'fits the theme of the site', surely?

Personally I think articles about how to make more money are nothing to do with the hacker mindset, but I wouldn't even consider flagging them if other people found them interesting enough to upvote.



The site started out as 'start-up news'.


The guidelines are pretty clear about this, really:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.

Startup-related stuff is therefore explicitly on topic. Making more money seems on topic re: startups.


Can you define "hacker mindset" for me?


Not really :-)

No better than pointing towards a dusty old copy of the Jargon File -- or the New Hacker's Dictionary, the book version I read when I was a teenager, without which I probably wouldn't be here saying this.

Anyhow, the difference in mindsets between the different readers is EXACTLY why I wouldn't go around flagging things as off-topic that other people liked. Viva la difference.





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