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I always wondered what HN would look like if we used preferential ranking, and almost started to work on something earlier this month.
by rokhayakebe 17y ago
I always wondered what HN would look like if we used preferential ranking, and almost started to work on something earlier this month.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoHow does that work when we get different stories at different times? You might be able to come up with a system in which everyone votes on the day's top stories, and then they're ranked, but that would be tedious and would not clearly produce a better result than what we have now.
- gojomo 17y agoNot saying any of this is necessarily a good idea, but to explore an interesting vein of ideas: What if the front page weren't continuously updated, but only updated after fixed balloting periods (say, 6-12 hours long)? Voting would only happen when all stories for a period were in. Each voter would see a different randomized order-of-presentation. Yes, it'd completely change the character of the site. No immediate upvote feedback for being first to submit a 'hot' story. Stories would be guaranteed to lag other 'breaking' news sites by some number of hours. But these changes might be good things: reducing both the incentive to submit, and the rewards for constant reading, of frothy/gossipy linkbait. A site seeking impressions over all else wouldn't want this approach -- but HN isn't ad-driven. 'Slow HN' might be a better HN.