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I don’t think the problem is making people think before posting. HNs /new has a lot of great content in there but most of it gets little attention, I think the

I don’t think the problem is making people think before posting. HNs /new has a lot of great content in there but most of it gets little attention, I think the problem is there needs to be a system that encourages voting especially on posts with lower karma. Most posts in /new just get 0-2 upvotes, if there were more people giving good content a boost it would improve the overall quality. As it is now the posts that rise to the top are sort of random, the posts that rise to the top seem to be purely on the basis of the time of day it was posted and the title.

Normille 5y ago
>I don’t think the problem is making people think before posting... I disagree. I'm probably in a minority here, but I browse HN by 'Newest' [0] as I tend to dip into the site for a few minutes, a couple of times a day and so 'new' content is more important to me than popular content. Unfortunately, browsing the site this way really makes the noise to signal ratio stand out. If there's a biggish tech news story, it's not unusual to see it appear a dozen or more times in the first couple of pages, when the site is viewed this way. It's one of my pet hates --a lot more so than the subjective 'quality' of a post. I really wish there was some penalty for posting a submission that has already been posted. So maybe having to 'Pay [in karma] to Post' would help with this? Slightly off-topic. But my other bug-bear at the moment is the annoying number of people submitting links to Tweets, as submissions. I mean, it's a common refrain on here 'This is not Reddit!' when someone is being childish or frivolous but, fuck's sake, you can't get more childish or frivolous than posting a link to a bloody tweet! I make it a matter of course to flag every submission I see, with a Twitter link --just stop it, already! I also wish there was something like the excellent 'Google Hit Hider by Domain' Greasemonkey script [1] for HN, so that I could permanently block certain junk domains from ever showing up when I browse the site. If anyone out there fancies a Javascript project to tinker with, you could do a lot worse than trying to build something like that! [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest [1] https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/ https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/
- moistly 5y ago
  Like you, I browse New exclusively; it’s the only way to see all the interesting and useful posts — many of which never make it into the ranked view. And so… > I really wish there was some penalty for posting a submission that has already been posted …is something I would really love to see. There are far too many duplicated breaking-news/issue-of-the-day posts and far too many “no one paid attention to me oh no i better post-repost-repost please pay attention to meeeeee!” posts. In both cases it’s just noise diluting the actually interesting stuff.

Normille 5y ago

>I don’t think the problem is making people think before posting... I disagree. I'm probably in a minority here, but I browse HN by 'Newest' [0] as I tend to dip into the site for a few minutes, a couple of times a day and so 'new' content is more important to me than popular content. Unfortunately, browsing the site this way really makes the noise to signal ratio stand out. If there's a biggish tech news story, it's not unusual to see it appear a dozen or more times in the first couple of pages, when the site is viewed this way. It's one of my pet hates --a lot more so than the subjective 'quality' of a post. I really wish there was some penalty for posting a submission that has already been posted. So maybe having to 'Pay [in karma] to Post' would help with this? Slightly off-topic. But my other bug-bear at the moment is the annoying number of people submitting links to Tweets, as submissions. I mean, it's a common refrain on here 'This is not Reddit!' when someone is being childish or frivolous but, fuck's sake, you can't get more childish or frivolous than posting a link to a bloody tweet! I make it a matter of course to flag every submission I see, with a Twitter link --just stop it, already! I also wish there was something like the excellent 'Google Hit Hider by Domain' Greasemonkey script [1] for HN, so that I could permanently block certain junk domains from ever showing up when I browse the site. If anyone out there fancies a Javascript project to tinker with, you could do a lot worse than trying to build something like that! [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest [1] https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/ https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/

moistly 5y ago
Like you, I browse New exclusively; it’s the only way to see all the interesting and useful posts — many of which never make it into the ranked view. And so… > I really wish there was some penalty for posting a submission that has already been posted …is something I would really love to see. There are far too many duplicated breaking-news/issue-of-the-day posts and far too many “no one paid attention to me oh no i better post-repost-repost please pay attention to meeeeee!” posts. In both cases it’s just noise diluting the actually interesting stuff.