It seems bureaucracy has come to HN.
I personally won't follow the new rules. I prefer not to comment anymore.
I was one of the early users of HN, this alone made me have enormous karma and influence out of nothing.
I forgot the password several times and created new accounts. Now my comments were worth nothing just because I was new.
One of the reasons I write anonymous is that I don't want to carry my real life reputation with everything I say, call it the Feyman effect: when he got the Nobel price everybody started considering everything he said like God words, even if he wanted to just do a funny stupid remark.
I don't want my comments to be judged by gatekeepers, or to be the gatekeeper myself.
Probably, given the size of HN this is necessary, like Reddit we just have to find a smaller community that cares about science and start over again.
I personally won't follow the new rules. I prefer not to comment anymore.
I was one of the early users of HN, this alone made me have enormous karma and influence out of nothing.
I forgot the password several times and created new accounts. Now my comments were worth nothing just because I was new.
One of the reasons I write anonymous is that I don't want to carry my real life reputation with everything I say, call it the Feyman effect: when he got the Nobel price everybody started considering everything he said like God words, even if he wanted to just do a funny stupid remark.
I don't want my comments to be judged by gatekeepers, or to be the gatekeeper myself.
Probably, given the size of HN this is necessary, like Reddit we just have to find a smaller community that cares about science and start over again.