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Could you just add the ability to blacklist domains on a per-user basis? That way I could personally blacklist valleywag.com and nytimes.com if I wanted to, whi
by Xichekolas 19y ago
Could you just add the ability to blacklist domains on a per-user basis? That way I could personally blacklist valleywag.com and nytimes.com if I wanted to, while others could enjoy their linkbait if they wanted.
Blacklisting would simply not show me stories with given string in the url.
- pg 19y agoI thought of that, but the goal here is not to evolve into a site that's everything to everyone, like Reddit or Digg. We want to have the best collection of links for hackers. So we can't duck decisions like this. We shouldn't expect never to have to ban a site if both (a) we want to make News.YC be about a specific topic, and (b) there are sites with a deliberate strategy of linkbaiting.
- Xichekolas 19y agoI don't think this would fracture the community much and it would probably do a tremendous thing to improve the signal to noise ratio for me personally. Not everyone has the same measure of what is 'signal' and what is 'noise', so I wouldn't want to impose my blacklist on them, and I'm not voting this stuff up anyway, so it's not like I'd be affecting other users by just not seeing some things. Even only being allowed three blacklisted links would be huge for me. But honestly, not too passionate about this either way, just throwing in my two cents. Edit: Wrote a cheapo greasemonkey script to do this... http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
- brent 19y agoWhat good is the best collection of links if it is not easily searchable? Is there a reason you're avoiding this functionality?
- Xichekolas 19y agohttp://searchyc.com http://searchyc.com
- sah 19y agoI'd rather see news.YC figure out how to be a coherent community than fracture into different interest groups.