Any specific explanation for ignoring 12 years of newer accounts? To me that’s potentially a whole generation of new engineers’ comments/questions/insights that are being ignored, again for no discernable reason.
If there was a spam problem (or similar) I could understand, but this just seems arbitrary.
Again I would just want to understand the reasoning for it, as it could be legitimate.
It was a quick experiment in 2009, and soon forgotten by most. It's not linked from anywhere in the site's UI. It doesn't seem intended to be used anymore, and seems to exist as a historical artefact. Certainly nothing for people to be offended by.
Was there any discussion about that experiment at the time?
Again, mostly curious as to the reasoning, as this kind of thing would tend to go against fostering a community, which is what the idea behind HN seems to be.
Any specific explanation for ignoring 12 years of newer accounts? To me that’s potentially a whole generation of new engineers’ comments/questions/insights that are being ignored, again for no discernable reason.
If there was a spam problem (or similar) I could understand, but this just seems arbitrary.
Again I would just want to understand the reasoning for it, as it could be legitimate.