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This, combined with a burying system to get rid of junk stories, could clean up the 'new' section substantially. It would also be useful to factor snr into the
by notabel 20y ago
This, combined with a burying system to get rid of junk stories, could clean up the 'new' section substantially. It would also be useful to factor snr into the computation; the nature of the karma system, which makes it more advantageous (at a marginal level) to submit a story than a comment, encourages a shot-gun approach to submission; SNR would combat that.
EDIT: Ha, points to jwecker for posting about SNR while I was writing about it.
- dfranke 20y agoI've never used Digg, but from what I read of them, their burying system is working out rather poorly. Burying a story on Digg requires an O(1) number of votes, so anything controversial gets buried even if 90% of users agree that it's an excellent article. A simple up/down model like Reddit's seems like a better idea, but see the top-level comment that I'll have posted in about two minutes.