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So basically implement a system like Slashdot? I think that the vaccine HN had was size. Just like a modern republic vs. ancient Athens, HN has grown to the p
by gilgad13 15y ago
So basically implement a system like Slashdot?
I think that the vaccine HN had was size. Just like a modern republic vs. ancient Athens, HN has grown to the point where the obvious answer just doesn't seem to work. I think that Slashdot has already had to deal with these growing pains, and HN(and reddit) chose to ignore /.'s problems and pick the obvious solution. Unfortunately the behavior of mobs/tribalism tears this choice down.
- tptacek 15y agoWhich limiting yourself to a set of must-read users and not consuming all of HN might not be a replacement for that vaccine, but it sure helps keep the plague rats at bay.
- dredmorbius 15y agoI'd very much hope it's not just like Slashdot. Any strict voting/counting based system is going to be biased to highly popular (vs. interesting) articles. A Likert-scale ranking system (vote on some scale, usually 1-3, 1-5, 1-7, etc., occasionally even (to exclude uncommitted median votes), and including a multiplier (log-based) for popularity) seems to be one of the more reliable ways of meaningfully indicating general interest in content. Tracking the variance / standard deviation in votes is also helpful in identifying whether an item is of low interest (or disliked), vs. polarizing.