One of the major problems with HN is that is is an old, established community. That means that lots of stuff that is new to newcomers is old hat to the old hands here and they do not tire of telling people that.
In deference to the 'old hats', they do make this community in to what it is, a place where some pretty cool stuff gets posted and discussed at a fairly high level.
I personally see absolutely nothing wrong in people posting stuff that is new to them, for every 'poster' there must be 10's if not 100's of people to who it is news as well.
Just because you already know everything there is to know doesn't mean that that goes for everybody else too.
One way around this is to have a karma threshold for displaying submissions, that way the 'old hands' if they so choose could blind themselves to whatever the newcomers to on 'their' view of HN without any interference.
And it would stop people from taking 'revenge' on the submitter of this story the way it is being done right now, which I really think is not becoming of HN.
Have some room for each other please, and do not kick people for doing the same thing that you did yourself in the not so distant past.
In deference to the 'old hats', they do make this community in to what it is, a place where some pretty cool stuff gets posted and discussed at a fairly high level.
I personally see absolutely nothing wrong in people posting stuff that is new to them, for every 'poster' there must be 10's if not 100's of people to who it is news as well.
Just because you already know everything there is to know doesn't mean that that goes for everybody else too.
One way around this is to have a karma threshold for displaying submissions, that way the 'old hands' if they so choose could blind themselves to whatever the newcomers to on 'their' view of HN without any interference.
And it would stop people from taking 'revenge' on the submitter of this story the way it is being done right now, which I really think is not becoming of HN.
Have some room for each other please, and do not kick people for doing the same thing that you did yourself in the not so distant past.