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This was originally announced[0] with the title HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old So is there a reason to think now that the c

This was originally announced[0] with the title HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old So is there a reason to think now that the cutoff date is Feb 13, 2008, or could it be dynamically counting accounts over a year old? 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271

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kubanczyk 6y ago
Even for 2008 cutoff, the classic ranking is still remarkably similar to the main ranking. (Which stupefies me.) So why bother tuning it to be even more similar?
- jerrre 6y ago
  the likely cause of similarity is the "classic" users browse (and vote based on) the regular front page
- monsieurbanana 6y ago
  There's nothing surprising to the ranking being similar. Old accounts don't use classic, they use the normal HN homepage like everybody else. Which means, they see the same top links as everybody else, and upvote them, like everybody else. In other words, /classic is remarkably useless. It might have been useful when it was created (11 years ago!), if a sizeable part of those old accounts would use /classic, and only /classic.
  - Terretta 6y ago
    I use /classic, slightly less dross. It’s gotten gradually less different through time, perhaps something to the point that others may not be using it.
- oblio 6y ago
  > Which stupefies me. You're surprised that the general tech population is remarkably similar to the elite tech population? :-p
Tomte 6y ago
I think it's supposed to be about the "startup" users. So you can't use a dynamic cutoff date. Nowadays, HN is more of a general tech aggregator, but discussions where some users lament the turning away from exclusively startup content still happen every now and then. (Personally I'm happy with how it went. Startup stuff bores me.)
sjs382 6y ago
> So is there a reason to think now that the cutoff date is Feb 13, 2008, Damn, March 31 2008 account here. Juts over a month too late :)

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kubanczyk 6y ago

Even for 2008 cutoff, the classic ranking is still remarkably similar to the main ranking. (Which stupefies me.) So why bother tuning it to be even more similar?

jerrre 6y ago
the likely cause of similarity is the "classic" users browse (and vote based on) the regular front page
monsieurbanana 6y ago
There's nothing surprising to the ranking being similar. Old accounts don't use classic, they use the normal HN homepage like everybody else. Which means, they see the same top links as everybody else, and upvote them, like everybody else. In other words, /classic is remarkably useless. It might have been useful when it was created (11 years ago!), if a sizeable part of those old accounts would use /classic, and only /classic.
- Terretta 6y ago
  I use /classic, slightly less dross. It’s gotten gradually less different through time, perhaps something to the point that others may not be using it.
oblio 6y ago
> Which stupefies me. You're surprised that the general tech population is remarkably similar to the elite tech population? :-p

Tomte 6y ago

I think it's supposed to be about the "startup" users. So you can't use a dynamic cutoff date. Nowadays, HN is more of a general tech aggregator, but discussions where some users lament the turning away from exclusively startup content still happen every now and then. (Personally I'm happy with how it went. Startup stuff bores me.)

sjs382 6y ago

> So is there a reason to think now that the cutoff date is Feb 13, 2008, Damn, March 31 2008 account here. Juts over a month too late :)