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I'm less interested in most of the topics that make the front-page these days. Covid, crypto, NFTs, security exploits, Tesla news, privacy, Apple products, sci

I'm less interested in most of the topics that make the front-page these days. Covid, crypto, NFTs, security exploits, Tesla news, privacy, Apple products, scientific papers about health - none of this stuff is very interesting to me, and it's making up a bigger and bigger portion of what shows up. I flag most of those stories, and hide all of them. Therefore my front-page is maybe a subset of the top-100 stories, and they really tail off in activity once you get into stories that aren't on the normal front-page. There's still some stuff I find cool, but I have to sift pretty hard, e.g. Rust Wolf3D port - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30182565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30182565 Radix Sort - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30135440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30135440 Well... I went back two weeks in my upvoted submissions and that's about all I found, actually...

greenyoda 5y ago
> Covid, crypto, NFTs, security exploits, Tesla news, privacy, Apple products, scientific papers about health - none of this stuff is very interesting to me > I flag most of those stories Please don't flag stories just because you don't find them interesting. Flagging is intended for stories that violate site guidelines (off-topic, spam, uncivil comments, duplicate posts, etc.). A story about privacy or a scientific paper is not likely to be off-topic. The HN Guidelines say: "If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."[1] The guidelines don't say that you should flag articles that you find uninteresting. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- thrower123 5y ago
  > off-topic, spam, uncivil comments, duplicate posts, They are all of these things, as I've defined them. I'm going to take what few actions I can take to try to make this site useful to me, and direct it, little as I can, in the direction I'd like to see it go. Largely, these are topics that turn into flaming tire-fires in the comments immediately, with people rehashing the same tired arguments that get thrown out here day after day, year after year. It's tiresome, and I don't want to see it.
  - greenyoda 5y ago
    "Frivolous flagging—e.g. flagging a story that's clearly on-topic by the site guidelines just because one personally dislikes it—eventually gets an account's flagging privileges taken away." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836

greenyoda 5y ago

> Covid, crypto, NFTs, security exploits, Tesla news, privacy, Apple products, scientific papers about health - none of this stuff is very interesting to me > I flag most of those stories Please don't flag stories just because you don't find them interesting. Flagging is intended for stories that violate site guidelines (off-topic, spam, uncivil comments, duplicate posts, etc.). A story about privacy or a scientific paper is not likely to be off-topic. The HN Guidelines say: "If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."[1] The guidelines don't say that you should flag articles that you find uninteresting. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

thrower123 5y ago
> off-topic, spam, uncivil comments, duplicate posts, They are all of these things, as I've defined them. I'm going to take what few actions I can take to try to make this site useful to me, and direct it, little as I can, in the direction I'd like to see it go. Largely, these are topics that turn into flaming tire-fires in the comments immediately, with people rehashing the same tired arguments that get thrown out here day after day, year after year. It's tiresome, and I don't want to see it.
- greenyoda 5y ago
  "Frivolous flagging—e.g. flagging a story that's clearly on-topic by the site guidelines just because one personally dislikes it—eventually gets an account's flagging privileges taken away." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836