I think some of our definitions are different. I guess to translate, my point is this: a news site for fiction writers may be wanted, but a news site and a community like HN are different things. The community is not a given even if people want news. In addition to the necessary components I mentioned in another post there are sure to be significant others: e.g. a large number of people are profitably employed as developers and spend a good portion of their workday looking like they are working while browsing online. I assume science fiction writers probably spend a lot of time online, but also that there are far fewer of them than successful engineers/developers.
You have given an example of people in a specific subfield wanting to spread awards around, unless you’re referring to something else. I’m not denying the reality of that. That is very different from what we are discussing as well.
You think it will work, I’m skeptical it will work. That’s ok.
You claim you are skeptical that it "will work" when I have pointed to multiple already existing communities where it is currently working in this very thread.
You have given an example of people in a specific subfield wanting to spread awards around, unless you’re referring to something else. I’m not denying the reality of that. That is very different from what we are discussing as well.
You think it will work, I’m skeptical it will work. That’s ok.