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Good Ask YC posts are among my favorite on HN. Many news stories offer little meat for discussion--they're straightforward. My feed reader catches most interest
by ericb 19y ago
Good Ask YC posts are among my favorite on HN. Many news stories offer little meat for discussion--they're straightforward. My feed reader catches most interesting news, already, so for me, the discussion provides the greatest value.
To keep the baby not the bathwater, what about putting up the submission-level down arrow, but only for Ask YC submissions?
- greendestiny 19y agoI don't think down arrows would be enough. Unfortunately a lot of new Ask YC posts are opinionated and people vote as means of identifying with the post rather than as a measure of interest or quality. Its interesting how well the poll system reverted the up arrow to a quality measure rather than an agreement measure in polls. Most of the objectionable AskYC posts could probably be shoe-horned into polls by editors - just with 'agree' or 'disagree' options. Maybe every post could have additional [agree] [disagree] buttons, because a lot of poor quality submissions are equally opinionated.
- ericb 19y agoThe missing thread-level down arrow does prevent reddit-style polling. Pg might not like this suggestion because a worse nightmare might be "vote up if you like candy" threads. If the down-arrows were karma-restricted to ensure adequate assimilation, though...