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I often see your "related" comment at the top of these posts and they mostly seem to match what shows up when you click "past". Would it make sense to automatic

I often see your "related" comment at the top of these posts and they mostly seem to match what shows up when you click "past". Would it make sense to automatically add a prominent link to the most recent or most commented on post in the header so you wouldn't have to copy & paste the links as comments?

dang 5y ago
There are a lot of differences—you just have to squint to see them. I think a better solution would be software to let the community collaborate on building a related-links list. That could also naturally expand to including related URLs to articles on the same topic, even if they didn't get a previous HN conversation.
- dpifke 5y ago
  I want a related-comments tool, so that when anyone posts a comment on a story about Tesla Autopilot or nuclear energy, they can see links to the 10,000 unoriginal comments mirroring what they wrote (again).
  - dang 5y ago
    There's something to that idea, because the art of optimizing a site for curiosity has mostly to do with avoiding repetition, and the most repetitive comments ought to be the most machine-learnable. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=diffs%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
smegsicle 5y ago
I don't get this pervasive myth that dang is some kind of robot slave who lives on managed time and 'copies' and 'pastes' things- dang is a real person who types every letter and loves every second of it. It's dang's choice to have two windows open- one with the comment box, and one with the 'past' page- and to read which ones have discussion with his human eyes, and then to type out the relevant information into the comment box. I'm vicariously offended that anyone would think this is a task that should, or even could, be even partially automated.
- dylan604 5y ago
  come come, we all know dang is just a bot that PG made a long time ago ;-)
  - throwaway_dcnt 5y ago
    Hahaha, I think you have it inverted. Dang is the person, PG is the bot.
    - psd1 5y ago
      Did the bot make any other people?

dang 5y ago

There are a lot of differences—you just have to squint to see them. I think a better solution would be software to let the community collaborate on building a related-links list. That could also naturally expand to including related URLs to articles on the same topic, even if they didn't get a previous HN conversation.

dpifke 5y ago
I want a related-comments tool, so that when anyone posts a comment on a story about Tesla Autopilot or nuclear energy, they can see links to the 10,000 unoriginal comments mirroring what they wrote (again).
- dang 5y ago
  There's something to that idea, because the art of optimizing a site for curiosity has mostly to do with avoiding repetition, and the most repetitive comments ought to be the most machine-learnable. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=diffs%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

smegsicle 5y ago

I don't get this pervasive myth that dang is some kind of robot slave who lives on managed time and 'copies' and 'pastes' things- dang is a real person who types every letter and loves every second of it. It's dang's choice to have two windows open- one with the comment box, and one with the 'past' page- and to read which ones have discussion with his human eyes, and then to type out the relevant information into the comment box. I'm vicariously offended that anyone would think this is a task that should, or even could, be even partially automated.

dylan604 5y ago
come come, we all know dang is just a bot that PG made a long time ago ;-)
- throwaway_dcnt 5y ago
  Hahaha, I think you have it inverted. Dang is the person, PG is the bot.
  - psd1 5y ago
    Did the bot make any other people?