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This is exactly why the founders of SO, reddit, even HN itself implemented a solution with certain mathematical brilliance and you've just recreated the problem
by jasonzemos 10y ago
This is exactly why the founders of SO, reddit, even HN itself implemented a solution with certain mathematical brilliance and you've just recreated the problem again. The absolute bottom line is that no question is too stupid -- they're only too stupid for you and your inured in-group of community insiders. If you don't want to see these questions, have the algorithms hide them from you; have people who have been programming for two months deal with the questions from people programming for one month.
All you are doing here is injecting your own over-weighted bias into the algorithms and creating yet another tyranny of moderation for everyone that culminates with every single online community monotonically decreasing off peak from the point of its inception. Moderators should be more -- if not entirely -- concerned with tweaking algorithms rather than tweaking members and activity directly.