Why are Madonna, Britney Spears, will.i.am and others in our Hacker News Circle?

Why are Madonna, Britney Spears, will.i.am and others in our Hacker News Circle?(plus.google.com)

4 points by robertocr 14 years ago | 6 comments

robertocr 14 years ago |

What can be done to improve http://hngp.axxim.net/ ?

Here's the Hacker News Circle, in case you still don't have it in your circles (it's really worth it): https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts

tokenadult 14 years ago | |

Google+ says, "You've reached your daily limit for adding more circles. You can add more tomorrow." What's up with that?

nantes 14 years ago |

I've noticed this as well. I've dealt with it by flat out banning any user or page that has nothing to do with HN. I will flat out never look at it again.

Now granted they could probably care less and I probably never would have looked anyway, but it works for me.

Terretta 14 years ago | |

Across 4000-some users? What if it's Richard Branson? Isn't he a plausible user? Only way to fix this is add code to the circle compiler that checks for the G+ ID in public comment field here. That catches on virally, and the data gets cleaned. It's been done before for other HN groupings elsewhere.

nantes 14 years ago | | |

Nah, I figure Richard Branson might actually have some plausible connection, he gets to stay. Paris Hilton? No.