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A few notes: 1) Users with an old account do not necessarily write better comments or post better stories than recent arrivals. 2) Length doesn't equal insigh
by mixmax 19y ago
A few notes:
1) Users with an old account do not necessarily write better comments or post better stories than recent arrivals.
2) Length doesn't equal insightfulness. There might be some correlation, but not a lot. This comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=110034 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=110034 is three characters and has a vote of 57.
I like the idea of people being able to write their own formulas and share them. Especially in a forum like this :-)
- yters 19y agoOn the other hand, length plus lots of points is a sure sign of insightfulness, or pg, not that there's a difference.
- bayareaguy 19y agoI like the idea of people being able to write their own formulas and share them. I don't know how flexible YC News is but it would be great if each user could express their own individual ordering preference relations in their profile.
- mixmax 19y agomaybe even a modding system for the modding systems...
- iamelgringo 19y agoI agree, that people with old accounts do not necessarily write better, more insightful comments or post better stories than recent arrivals, but they have been around longer, and are probably more committed to the community. Case in point, the 3 character post that you mentioned was posted by davidw: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidw http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidw He's been a member for over a year, and his karma is over 2300.
- imgabe 19y ago>I like the idea of people being able to write their own formulas and share them. Especially in a forum like this :-) I think this is a great idea. If all the relevant data were made available (most of it probably is) it could probably be implemented client side in something like greasemonkey.