Generic tangents lead to repetitive, generic discussion which can be quite popular but is much less interesting. In fact they usually are much more popular than the curious, nonrepetitive, obscure sorts of topics that we actually want here. Too much repetition is bad for curiosity.
dang|3 years ago
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For major ongoing topics (like SQLite) it's best to avoid generic tangents. This is in the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Generic tangents lead to repetitive, generic discussion which can be quite popular but is much less interesting. In fact they usually are much more popular than the curious, nonrepetitive, obscure sorts of topics that we actually want here. Too much repetition is bad for curiosity.