I've always liked that motto. I feel the (well intentioned) linked post is kind of doing that.
It's true that we want to develop a "mature" culture at HN. It's true that there should be guidelines for that.
It's true that new people should have some way of "assimilating" into the etiquette (which is very simple and straight forward etiquette).
But.
People who want to, learn by observing. So if we don't feed the trolls (ignore them) and instead simply do our best to write good posts I think we can preserve the culture.
People who just want attention, why, they LOVE whole blogposts dedicated to them.
I've always liked that motto. I feel the (well intentioned) linked post is kind of doing that.
It's true that we want to develop a "mature" culture at HN. It's true that there should be guidelines for that. It's true that new people should have some way of "assimilating" into the etiquette (which is very simple and straight forward etiquette).
But.
People who want to, learn by observing. So if we don't feed the trolls (ignore them) and instead simply do our best to write good posts I think we can preserve the culture.
People who just want attention, why, they LOVE whole blogposts dedicated to them.