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Yeah but for every superstar post like this there are thousands of equally upvoted yet ignorant comments that play on the sympathies/bias of HN readers for upvo
by drzaiusapelord 10y ago
Yeah but for every superstar post like this there are thousands of equally upvoted yet ignorant comments that play on the sympathies/bias of HN readers for upvotes.
I wish we had more of the former and less of the latter. I suspect no forum is ever safe from eternal September.
- dredmorbius 10y agoWhat do you suggest as a means for achieving that end?
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoCites from journals (not politicized websites like huffpo, guardian, etc) , credential listings, publication listings, etc. Something like this could filter out the "random geek wanna-be with an axe to grind" type post.
- dredmorbius 10y agoEssentially a reputation system, based on publisher or specific known authors then? How would, say, something like Thompson's "Trusting Trust" (though I suppose that was published in ACM or IEEE), or a Dijkstra or Pike blog post, rate? Comments from, say, Linus Torvalds on the LKML, or Lennert Pottering on systemd, or Bill Gates' various book recommendations, etc.?