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This is our site, if we want more hacker news and less reddit, follow the new page and consistently vote up geeky articles. The site has thousands of page view
by iamelgringo 18y ago
This is our site, if we want more hacker news and less reddit, follow the new page and consistently vote up geeky articles.
The site has thousands of page views every single day, but the top stories routinely get less than 100 votes. The moral of the story: submit good articles and vote up on them. The ratio of voters to lurkers is probably from 1:100 to 1:300. Your votes count. The only way to avoid having an Eternal September is to participate and keep it from happening.
I agree with you, Prakash, I was really surprised to see a "pics" link make it to the front page. I thought about flagging it, but I don't know if that is appropriate or not.
- prakash 18y agoI constantly check the new page to vote up & flag items. As some other have posted, more people should vote up.
- iamelgringo 18y agoI know you do, prakash. The comment was directed at others, not so much yourself. Sorry for the confusion.
- prakash 18y agono worries!
- cmos 18y agoI was thinking for the last couple weeks "oh man, now hn has jumped the shark". And as I was reading through some of the comments here, and it occurred to me that while I do keep tabs on the 'new' articles (not trusting the good ones to make their way up) I would only upvote if I thought it was a truly amazing article. I will change my upvoting habits. I believe the system can indeed work. I will upvote a little bit more often on articles that are very pertinent to this group.