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Well, HN is -just like any other community- biased and also suffers from echo chamber problem. Even if it is much smaller scale than any other online forum, sti
by StreamBright 11y ago
Well, HN is -just like any other community- biased and also suffers from echo chamber problem. Even if it is much smaller scale than any other online forum, still there is a chance for getting down voted even though your are absolutely 100% right about something and most of the down voters are wrong. You can either live with this and just ignore it or getting annoyed by it. I am not sure if this is going to be fixed or it needs to be fixed at all.
- lisper 11y agoThe problem is not so much the voting and the community, but the extreme non-linearity of the flagging mechanism. Getting flagged is mostly invisible until you cross a threshold and then -- poof! -- your article is dead. It was intended to keep spam and kitten pix off the front page. Vouching was introduced as a counter-measure to inappropriate flagging, and indeed my article was vouched for once and was briefly resurrected before it was flagged to death a second time. Keeping control of an on-line curated forum as it grows is still an unsolved problem.
- StreamBright 11y agoI was thinking about this a lot, how could you protect the integrity of you content and at the same time keep up quality but still I got as far as introducing weight to the votes, and scale up how much somebody's vote means based on their karma. I don't think that HN does that, and also not sure it would fix this problem. We need probably some model to verify. Curious if anybody has a good idea.