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coincidentally, HN has his own "Classic" page too[1] But it is focused on classic users. The idea is that users who have been around for a while will post quali
by toni 7y ago
coincidentally, HN has his own "Classic" page too[1] But it is focused on classic users. The idea is that users who have been around for a while will post quality articles. I just don't know how the threshold works.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/classic https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
- barrkel 7y agoRanking (and thus visibility) is dominated by the majority of accounts, so even if classic users submitted and voted on articles which reflected the early character of the site, they wouldn't get to see each much of each other's articles. Such a "classic" view can only work meaningfully (i.e. generating content that reflected the classic userbase) if classic users use it exclusively.
- bonoboTP 7y agoAny link to read up on this? Like what is "classic view", how exactly it's different from the main page, what are "classic users", what was the "early character of the site" like etc?
- barrkel 7y agoI write from memory when PG was doing these experiments, if you do a HN search over PG & classic should be able to dig it out.
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