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And if you aren't voting anything down, you wouldn't be the kind of person who would need such a website in the first place. You lost me there. You're talking
by jasonkester 16y ago
And if you aren't voting anything down, you wouldn't be the kind of person who would need such a website in the first place.
You lost me there. You're talking about this on a site that doesn't even allow its users to downvote stories. And you're talking to a power user of that site, who just told you he doesn't ever downvote things. HN is a culture of voting up things that are good, and, rarely, downvoting things that are distracting from the conversation. That's one of the reasons it's so good.
As to cookies for non-logged in users, they don't really help anything. Sure, you could consider every clickthru as a 'vote' for personalization purposes, but it would likely just fill a user's feed with poorly titled things and clickbait. Probably more than half the articles I click through on get closed immediately without reading. I wouldn't want to optimize my view to include more of that.
- tomjen3 16y agoOkay we try again. If he didn't wish he could downvote stuff, he hasn't got a need for a service that takes his downvote into account. The long term cookie isn't really that important for vote counting perspectives but to be able to find out whom to serve the personalized stuff to. It is essentially no different from hn which also sets a cookie when you login, except that if you erase the cookie, you can get it set again when you log in, which wouldn't happen in my example.
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago>And you're talking to a power user of that site, who just told you he doesn't ever downvote things. As an aside, what makes you a "power user"?
- jasonkester 16y agoSame thing that makes you one, brother. 1000 reputation points and the equivalent of $10k in otherwise billable hours squandered on this site.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoI'm going to be lording it over the hoi-poloi now, "I'm a power user".