Those are great points and it leads right back to the solipsism thing. Also, you snuck a "It's not that X, it's that Y." in there. Nice.
reply> you should just do a monthly "Vibe HN" thread
It wouldn't stop people from feeding them into the Show HN stream, which is the problem. If we had a good enough way to tell them apart, we could factor them into two streams, but we don't yet.
> It wouldn't stop people from feeding them into the Show HN stream, which is the problem. If we had a good enough way to tell them apart, we could factor them into two streams, but we don't yet.
replyBut it would allow for a culture to grow where the posters would self-contain their submissions into those threads.
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replyI don't want to make this about people's faith or whatever, but to put it frankly, I've heard a lot of contemporary Christian music, I don't care for it, and [I like to think] I can reliably recognize it in three notes or fewer,¹ which may or may not bear out in rigorous testing, but saves me a lot of time either way. This feels like it parallels strongly with the topic at hand
reply1. erring on the side of sounding cooler