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Pg, Is it possible that building on a 'broken' system isn't enough to fix the problem(s)? The reason I point this out is that I think its possible that as a c
by noahc 16y ago
Pg,
Is it possible that building on a 'broken' system isn't enough to fix the problem(s)?
The reason I point this out is that I think its possible that as a community grows the assumptions about the community become a part of the code and they aren't necessarily true anymore.
When a community is small by definition it has shared values. As the community grows it starts to fragment those shared values, but the code assumes that they still have shared values.
I am indifferent to the idea of down voting stories, but the code doesn't allow it because the assumption being made is that the stories being posted are being checked against the common community values, when in fact newer members (perhaps my self included on the newer point) see hacker news as the next technology/startup based Digg/Reddit/Slashdot, etc.
- riffraff 16y agoit would be cool if the score of an object in the system was a vector-like thingy in which every value is the result of operations created by people in your same account-demographic (e.g. accounts older than 3,6,9,12,15,18 months). You would be able to filter for stuff that has the most total votes, the most votes among people in your age class, and the most people across all age classes at vote time (people who are now one year old but voted for it one year ago) This way you could still select between stuff that is useful/interesting to everyone, such as a new $X by $Y and stuff that was interesting for people when they first read it but it's now boring since it's the tenth submission ("harry potter and the methods of rationality" comes to mind).