Title: Hey there.<p>Firstly, thanks for joining our little corner of the web. It's great to have you here, and we look forward to getting to know you.<p>However, there's a culture here we'd like to keep, and some of you are unknowingly damaging it a little, and I'd like to point you in the right direction as it were.<p>I think you see HN as a mini version of reddit. Which in a way, it is. But it's a mini version of a tiny part of reddit. We don't really want stuff on politics or whatnot on here. We want things on code, on business and startups. Also, hacking things is good and post-worthy.<p>What isn't is...<p>"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."<p>From patio11: "We also discourage pithy one-liners, personal abuse (even witty personal abuse... although candidly speaking you're probably overestimating how witty you're being if you're thinking of fudging this one), memes, and the letters TL; DR."<p>I know the guidelines are hidden at the bottom, and so you probably didn't read them, but I just thought I'd bring this to your attention.<p>Kthxbai<p>EDIT 1: To clarify, it's not that I think HN is turning into Reddit, it's that some people (mostly new) seem to think it should. I respectfully disagree, and think it's quite alright without being reddit.<p>EDIT 2: Yes, I've read the guidelines. I'm not complaining that it's becoming reddit, it's that some users seem to think it should. See EDIT 1.<p>EDIT 3: Added patio11's points.
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