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What you would need to commit to is a frontpage that is personalized, which might not be exactly what you are really looking for. There is some benefit to havi
by evgen 18y ago
What you would need to commit to is a frontpage that is personalized, which might not be exactly what you are really looking for. There is some benefit to having a "shared" sense of community. The most recent design struggle I have wrestled with related to this is preventing an echo chamber of sorts from developing. A few quick observations related to how HN works now is that you would probably need to make the downvote more readily accessible to every user and might gain some benefit from "seeding" the network a la Advogato's initial trust sources.
- gaika 18y agoIdeally it should be a front page personalized for PG, and we all should share his experience :)
- ntoshev 18y agoPagerank sets global weights; you won't get a personalized homepage if you implement just that.
- evgen 18y agoStrict pagerank does set global weights (necessitating the "seed" values that I mentioned in another comment), but this is not a requirement of flow-based weighting systems. If you implement a canonical pagerank algorithm then you will get a global view based upon what certain people feel is important/worthy, and as you expand the set of seed users you will end up with complete personalization. There is a continuum here and deciding where to reside within this range has some pretty large effects on the nature of the site. Google determines global pagerank because they lack the computational horsepower to do otherwise and because web pages and users are not similar entities, but on a site like this where the links between users and articles are effectively a single measurement this sort of individual pagerank is possible.