We could stop thinking of them as walled gardens we're trying to get into and start thinking of them as quarantines for the Eternal September population.
delichon 2 hours ago [-]
> quarantines for the Eternal September population
Hacker News actually has a way to do this quarantine, a version that only counts votes from accounts created before 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic. About a decade after Eternal September started, but not bad.
randallsquared 2 minutes ago [-]
Decade and a half, really. Eternal September was 1993 or 1994, right?
defrost 1 hours ago [-]
FWiW as an aside, it appears to count votes from December 2008 accounts (as just tested using this 2008-12-26 account).
So that's at least strictly before 2009.
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Petersipoi 2 hours ago [-]
Awesome. Let's all start using this on HN so we end up with a bunch of broken links in a few years
bigbadfeline 15 minutes ago [-]
> a bunch of broken links in a few years
Who cares, by that time the originals and their copies would be a lot less worthy of viewing.
dadoum 2 hours ago [-]
They would become links with only a wrong domain, so I am not very worried about that personally.
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Hacker News actually has a way to do this quarantine, a version that only counts votes from accounts created before 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic. About a decade after Eternal September started, but not bad.
So that's at least strictly before 2009.
Who cares, by that time the originals and their copies would be a lot less worthy of viewing.