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.

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delichon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> 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.

	▲	bananaflag 9 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Wow that's very interesting but it only works for the front page (and also only changes the order not the numbers), not for each comment page. Maybe we should have a setting "count only votes before date yyyy-mm-dd" but this would probably make the site too dynamic (?) and consume a lot of resources.
	▲	defrost 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	randallsquared 43 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Decade and a half, really. Eternal September was 1993 or 1994, right?