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I should probably add a way to flag a story specifically as a dupe, and maybe also for having had the title reworded too egregiously. Those are common problems

by pg 17y ago

I should probably add a way to flag a story specifically as a dupe, and maybe also for having had the title reworded too egregiously. Those are common problems people currently have to use comments for now. Can anyone think of others?

thorax 17y ago
I pretty much only flag posts for: dupe terrible-title spam-site not-even-arguably-hacker-related
brk 17y ago
Along the same lines, I'd like to see a throttle that limits how many stories a user can submit from the same domain. There are a handful of users that seem to only submit from 1 or 2 sites that (I presume) they are affiliated with. This is just more noise that makes skimming the /new page and promoting good stories less efficient than it could be. Regarding titles... What about a title/subtitle option? Keep whatever title the actual article has, and a slightly smaller subtitle where the submitter can editorialize.
- dhimes 17y ago
  I dunno. I tend to submit from the same domains simply because there aren't very many submitting from those domains, and the can have interesting articles. On the other hand, I don't submit very often, so maybe some sort of statistical time check would work.
  - brk 17y ago
    Looking at your submissions, there seems to be enough time between submissions and variety that I don't think you'd get "caught" by what I am proposing.
    - dhimes 17y ago
      I wasn't just thinking of me.
russell 17y ago
I flag occasionally for spam or off-topic HN-wise. I have been tempted for those that hijack other stories without much of anything in the way of commentary, but HN'ers tend to quickly post a link to the original.
rms 17y ago
Flag as meta? A lot of people don't care for the meta-discussion.
- decklin 17y ago
  I would really like to see this. I'm inclined say it shouldn't have any relation to karma or killing, because there's nothing inherently wrong with meta-discussion, but the front page would be infinitely more pleasant to me if I could see "100 comments (90 meta)", instead of guessing if there were really 100 things to say about the article or if after the only 10 someone just hit a nerve with a downvote or a pointless "this isn't HN" snark and started something big and ugly. I'd go so far as including a "meta" checkbox next to the reply button, defaulting to the parent's value, which it would be considered polite to set truthfully, but maybe that's just me.

by pg 17y ago

thorax 17y ago

I pretty much only flag posts for: dupe terrible-title spam-site not-even-arguably-hacker-related

brk 17y ago

Along the same lines, I'd like to see a throttle that limits how many stories a user can submit from the same domain. There are a handful of users that seem to only submit from 1 or 2 sites that (I presume) they are affiliated with. This is just more noise that makes skimming the /new page and promoting good stories less efficient than it could be. Regarding titles... What about a title/subtitle option? Keep whatever title the actual article has, and a slightly smaller subtitle where the submitter can editorialize.

dhimes 17y ago
I dunno. I tend to submit from the same domains simply because there aren't very many submitting from those domains, and the can have interesting articles. On the other hand, I don't submit very often, so maybe some sort of statistical time check would work.
- brk 17y ago
  Looking at your submissions, there seems to be enough time between submissions and variety that I don't think you'd get "caught" by what I am proposing.
  - dhimes 17y ago
    I wasn't just thinking of me.

russell 17y ago

I flag occasionally for spam or off-topic HN-wise. I have been tempted for those that hijack other stories without much of anything in the way of commentary, but HN'ers tend to quickly post a link to the original.

rms 17y ago

Flag as meta? A lot of people don't care for the meta-discussion.

decklin 17y ago
I would really like to see this. I'm inclined say it shouldn't have any relation to karma or killing, because there's nothing inherently wrong with meta-discussion, but the front page would be infinitely more pleasant to me if I could see "100 comments (90 meta)", instead of guessing if there were really 100 things to say about the article or if after the only 10 someone just hit a nerve with a downvote or a pointless "this isn't HN" snark and started something big and ugly. I'd go so far as including a "meta" checkbox next to the reply button, defaulting to the parent's value, which it would be considered polite to set truthfully, but maybe that's just me.