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I think your current efficiency is pretty good. I'm sure I miss some, but there's no longer much that I see in "new" that seems great but disappears forever.
by nkurz 4y ago
I think your current efficiency is pretty good. I'm sure I miss some, but there's no longer much that I see in "new" that seems great but disappears forever. Your "second chance" pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool) seems to be working very well. Do you have a sense of what percentage of front page stories pass through it? A quick scan seemed to suggest that it might be as high as 20% (15-25 stories successfully recycled per day out of 100-120 front page posts per day). Seeing as it's basically invisible, that seems remarkably high.
- dang 4y agoIt is remarkably high- maybe even more than 20%. I just ran a quick analysis and it came out more like 40% but I feel like "that can't be right"™ so I'd need to dig into it. I still want to figure out how to build software for everyone to participate in this system, but have been stuck for years on "how would that not just be a clone of the upvoting system". That said, anyone who wants to nominate a story for a second chance is welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com. People do this, and we always take a look and usually put the submission in the pool. The only thing that's kind of a bummer is that well over 90% of the time, people are just asking for their own material to be put in the second-chance pool. That's fine to ask, and we're fine to do it if the article passes muster, but it's not really in the spirit of the thing to use it for promotional purposes. I always feel better when people email about an article they have no personal stake in, but just found interesting.