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The rationale being that HN wants to reward the websites that hackers find useful or meaningful and not give free linking to spam?
by graywh 19y ago
The rationale being that HN wants to reward the websites that hackers find useful or meaningful and not give free linking to spam?
- rms 19y agoExactly. I wonder if the follow/no follow barrier should be raised due to karma inflation, though.
- dangoldin 19y agoNow if every site implemented something like this - I suppose that would be recreating pagerank in a way.
- Bluem00 19y agoHere's an idea to reward high quality posts in a way robust to karma inflation: You could change the criteria for a follow/nofollow decision to use the time a link spends on the front page (e.g. the top 30). High scoring posts stay there for a while, while low scoring posts will drop off quickly. A similar approach could be used to dynamically set the karma barrier, if you don't want to track the rank of individual posts.
- rms 19y agoI actually wonder if Google has things like this built in. Do you think it knows that a 3000 point digg story is better than a 50 point story?
- tlrobinson 19y agoSeems redundant to me. A 3000 point Digg story will likely have many more inbound links than a 50 point story anyway.
- rms 19y agoGood point