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Great, now just move all of these off the front page entirely, and we'll be good to go. I know self-posts are algorithmically docked already, but I think I wou
by andrewljohnson 17y ago
Great, now just move all of these off the front page entirely, and we'll be good to go.
I know self-posts are algorithmically docked already, but I think I would prefer that HN was set up like StackOverflow where all meta-posts were cordoned off from the real stories.
- jacquesm 17y agoAsk HN posts are not meta posts, they can be but only a relatively small part of them are. Meta posts are posts discussing HN itself, Ask HN posts range from startup-reviews to job advice and all kinds of other stuff.
- andrewljohnson 17y agoOk, sure... but I still say please still rope them off in the same fashion. They are already discouraged from making the front page, and we might as well banish them completely.
- roundsquare 17y agoI disagree. The ones that make the front page are often interesting and I use the front page as a filter to keep me from spending too much time on HN while at work (as I would bet a lot of other people do something similar as well). I know you can treat the front page of the ask section the same way, but now its a filter of a much smaller set which means that "top 30" is not as good a filter (in addition to doubling the number of pages that are on a "front page"). I would think that its best to create disjoint sections only if people usually want to target one section or the other, which I don't think people do here (though if I'm wrong, I would agree with your idea).