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Agh, I care about this subject, but this poll is terrible. The options seem a crazy mishmash. Some of them are precise, others are general. What does 'make the
by akkartik 16y ago
Agh, I care about this subject, but this poll is terrible. The options seem a crazy mishmash. Some of them are precise, others are general. What does 'make the flag button more powerful' mean? I think it's getting most of its votes because people make their own assumptions about what it means.
Has someone attempted a hierarchy of choices? The HN frontpage works as it does because you have a relatively stable set of people voting on submissions to enter the front page. So to improve it you could constrain who can submit, who can upvote, and cultural norms about what is permitted (guidelines). Each of those could have specific concrete proposals. One of those I would vote on.
And so on and so forth. I haven't mentioned comments at all, but I think it's useful to light up this state space.
Hmm, I wish polls would separate comments based on how they voted.
- tptacek 16y agoIf I made the poll more precise, it'd be a zillion options long. If there's a variant of one of these ideas you like, vote it up and then clarify in the thread. I deliberately kept the options vague. Are some of the options too specific? Suggest ways for me to generalize them and I will.
- akkartik 16y agoWell, "500+ karma required to upvote" is pretty precise. You could generalize it to "increase the karma threshold for upvoting," "karma threshold for Ask HN posts," and so on. What does "make the flag button more powerful" mean to you? I think that's the real distraction to me.