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[rokhayakebe]

Frankly I believe Hacker News should not allow new registrations any longer.

Edit: Or at least make it invite-only.

[younata → rokhayakebe]

If HN were to do that, I'd leave.

Not allowing new registrations would end the "hacker" part of hacker news. Hacking is about being open, sharing information, and ALLOWING OTHERS TO SHARE BACK. To disallow new registrations would be to disallow others to share back, as well as kill the "open-ous" of this site.

In short, what you suggest would kill the site, not save it.

[steveklabnik → younata]

If it was dead, it wouldn't "be so bad" anymore... for a certain definition of 'solves the problem,' it solves the problem.

Note the scare quotes around "be so bad." I still think HN is a valuable place to spend my time.

[jacquesm → rokhayakebe]

What would you like to achieve with that ?

[alecco → jacquesm]

Confirmation bias!

[bhousel → alecco]

HN has plenty of that already..