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Positive or negative treatment?
by cj 17y ago
Positive or negative treatment?
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoIIRC, Ask HN and articles with titles that end in a question mark are negatively treated compared to other articles.
- shafqat 17y agoIf that's true, that's really too bad - ASK HN posts are one of the great differentiators about this place. They are almost always valuable, and the insight and answers provided by the community always remind me why this place is great.
- asb 17y agoI also often find them interesting. I recommend you read them through http://ask.searchyc.com/ http://ask.searchyc.com/ as even popular questions disappear from the front page so quickly I rarely get to see them.
- pg 17y agoI thought it would be interesting to see just these posts so I whipped up something to do it: http://news.ycombinator.com/ask http://news.ycombinator.com/ask Here's what it takes to define such an operator, in case anyone's curious: (newsop ask () (listpage user (msec) (retrieve maxend* [and (>= (realscore _) front-threshold*) (cansee user _) (blank _!url)] ranked-stories*) "ask" "Post Without Urls" "ask"))
- shafqat 17y agoPG - this is fantastically awesome. Your support and responsiveness is truly appreciated. If we meet in person someday, I will buy you many beers.
- huhtenberg 17y ago"Posts Without Urls"
- DXL 17y agoI believe I read sometime that all posts without a URL (i.e. "self" posts) get a discount of about 40%.