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Enough people visit the newest page such that that around 80% of the good stuff makes it to the front page, and about 5% of the bad stuff makes it (and then is
by kstenerud 5y ago
Enough people visit the newest page such that that around 80% of the good stuff makes it to the front page, and about 5% of the bad stuff makes it (and then is quickly flagged to death).
I think it's working fine as things are now. Our information is imperfect enough as it is, even before taking into account the huge number of people trying to game the system to get their ph3r0mones to reach the front page (seriously, the new page can get pretty dismal). Complicating it further will give diminishing returns, and even risk backwards progress.
- DoingIsLearning 5y agoAgreed, there is enough critical mass in /newest to act as a first pass filter, if there really is something interesting that falls through the cracks the moderators will put it into that second chance pool or what have you. Also generally there isn't as much hate on resubmissions/repost as for instance in reddit. So you can simple repost if you feel that you didn't submit it at the right day of the week, timezone peak time, etc.
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago>and about 5% of the bad stuff makes it (and then is quickly flagged to death). I would say some really good stuff makes it among that flagged to death stuff that unfortunately is not among the things that HN does well.
- ilaksh 5y agoThat is very far off. It's not anywhere near 80%.