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Wasn't this posted yesterday? I swear I saw it in the RSS feed. edit: Yeah, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10369608 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id

• solusipse 11y ago
  It's explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806904
• dang 11y ago
  We've been running a series of experiments to try to mitigate the randomness of what achieves liftoff from /newest. We started working on this because many users complained that good stories were getting ignored, and we looked closely and found that this was true. Below are links to a few comments I've posted about this over the last year, if anyone's interested. The next experiment will probably be to add a profile setting that people can turn on to let the software repost their story at a good time, rather than having to get an email invitation—although to judge from the feedback we've been getting, people seem to like the emails. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8790134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8790134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9866140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9866140
  • tdicola 11y ago
    Cool! Thanks for working on making interesting stories more visible.
    • dang 11y ago
      What would be awesome is if by doing this the community system gradually trains itself to post more interesting stories in the first place.