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I don't understand the need to control things to such a degree. If certain posts become popular its because people want to read them. If its true that a major

I don't understand the need to control things to such a degree. If certain posts become popular its because people want to read them. If its true that a majority of people here only want certain kinds of posts, then these "fluff" posts should move down the list pretty quickly naturally. If you really want this to be such a super exclusive club where only the "right" articles make it, then maybe we should just ditch the whole community thing entirely, make sign ups only through invitation -- AND if you pass a science/CS/math test! Then only people exactly the same as you would ever contribute.

yters 19y ago
I think user selected filtering is a good half way point. Since this is a hacker site, it'd be cool to expose the ranking algorithm somehow for per user modification. Then, if someone comes up with a good one they can share it. This way effective filtering can happen, but it isn't forced on everyone. http://arclanguage.org/item?id=1884 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=1884 However, I know this is a hefty hack, so is probably not feasible.
Spyckie 19y ago
"If certain posts become popular its because people want to read them." Why is reddit's content consistently horrible to the yc community? YC is not serving all people's needs in content - its serving a particular sector of users that expect knowledge/motivation from their content-browsing rather than humor/time-wasting. Ycnews is figuring how much they should control because the fact is that if you don't have controls, the content and user base becomes like reddit. Also, the extreme degree of control that you suggest is so ridiculous that you're doing nothing but insulting a lot of hard work that people have done to find a good balance between being super-exclusive and open to everyone.

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I don't understand the need to control things to such a degree. If certain posts become popular its because people want to read them. If its true that a major

by tolmasky 19y ago

yters 19y ago
I think user selected filtering is a good half way point. Since this is a hacker site, it'd be cool to expose the ranking algorithm somehow for per user modification. Then, if someone comes up with a good one they can share it. This way effective filtering can happen, but it isn't forced on everyone. http://arclanguage.org/item?id=1884 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=1884 However, I know this is a hefty hack, so is probably not feasible.
Spyckie 19y ago
"If certain posts become popular its because people want to read them." Why is reddit's content consistently horrible to the yc community? YC is not serving all people's needs in content - its serving a particular sector of users that expect knowledge/motivation from their content-browsing rather than humor/time-wasting. Ycnews is figuring how much they should control because the fact is that if you don't have controls, the content and user base becomes like reddit. Also, the extreme degree of control that you suggest is so ridiculous that you're doing nothing but insulting a lot of hard work that people have done to find a good balance between being super-exclusive and open to everyone.