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AFAIK: To discourage use of them, since HN wants the focus to be on link submissions.
by detaro 5y ago
AFAIK: To discourage use of them, since HN wants the focus to be on link submissions.
- hungryforcodes 5y agoGreat response, thanks! I like the HN questions -- but I understand maybe that's not their thing. :)
- ldbooth 5y agoThe variety of Ask HN is a positive feature this community has over a pure aggregator, IMO.
- city41 5y agoIf they are discouraged, why do they have their own entry in the header[1]? I always thought the light text was just to separate them visually from the comments. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/ask https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
- hungryforcodes 5y agoRight -- what a good observation. @dang -- any opinion?
- iamstupidsimple 5y ago"@dang" doesn't seem to work. You're best off email hn@ycombinator.com to get their attention
- balaji1 5y agoThere seems to be a few other undocumented features like these in HN. Or maybe they are documented somewhere and I dunno :)
- andyjohnson0 5y agoI'm not sure this is correct. The Ask HN posts that get voted up are usually high quality.
- rackjack 5y agoText-only posts are down-weighted by whatever ranking algorithm HN uses, so only the high-quality ones will rise to the top (usually).