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HN is pretty easy to figure out and thanks to Techcrunch et al has had ample opportunity to be overrun with junk. So it can be done. In fact it should be easier
by richardw 16y ago
HN is pretty easy to figure out and thanks to Techcrunch et al has had ample opportunity to be overrun with junk. So it can be done. In fact it should be easier because here we all share a front page, but Quora can use the social graph to massage results.
- notahacker 16y agoHN doesn't have to exit at a multiple of $86 million to generate returns for investors and so can afford to be a niche site carefully curated to be uninteresting to the mass market.
- richardw 16y agoThe curation is mostly done by users voting on others' contributions, not by a user interface that is too hard for dumb people to understand.