Don't bother visiting a community if you can't make the effort to adjust to its values and culture -- Stack Overflow doesn't care about answering poor questions with no long-term value (this isn't a debugging forum).
Take some time to elaborate on your question and flesh it out so that other people might benefit from it later.
Thanks for the reply. I respect that, but I'm not interested in a particular community. I'm interested in a variety of topics and subject categories, on a global level.
The concept of the community is an abstraction and in this case a bad one. There is no community. There are a million different individuals and within that thousands of communities each composed of some subset of those individuals.
There is no reason each subset or each individual even shouldn't have their own opinion and based their actions upon it.
A community's culture is the aggregate decision of the members of that community. If users want it to go one way, then why not? If you don't want the users to define their own culture, then don't call it a community, because it's not.
Additionally, if you feel HN would be helped by having more posts of a certain type, then start sharing more posts of a certain type!
Take some time to elaborate on your question and flesh it out so that other people might benefit from it later.
reply