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>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 d

>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.

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.