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It probably will. I followed a similar path of another person on here: /. -> k5 -> reddit -> HN. At the end of the day, nothing can stop 50 users up-voting cat
by boredguy8 18y ago
It probably will. I followed a similar path of another person on here: /. -> k5 -> reddit -> HN.
At the end of the day, nothing can stop 50 users up-voting cat pictures except to shut the site down.
- tstegart 18y agoExcept a Bayesian cat-picture filter written in Lisp!
- crazyirish 18y agolisp? you mean arc good sir. I'm not sure how effective a bayesian filter would be at classifying news stories as interesting/non-interesting though. Has anyone tried this?
- ricree 18y agoYou say that jokingly, but spam filters would probably work if someone was willing to slog through the digg front page long enough to build up a decent set of training data.
- emmett 18y agoThis is why hacker news has a collection of editors with the power to kill cat pictures with a click.
- boredguy8 18y agoDon't underestimate the power of mass stupidity. It's killed many sites in the past. Even with a "collection of editors with the power to kill cat pictures with a click."
- emmett 18y agoI don't understand; are you implying that there will simply be too many stories for editors to kill them all? The particular defense HN has against people voting up mind-candy is that editors can (and do) kill those stories. What makes you think this strategy won't work?