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I see your point. I'm still not sure how it would be implemented in a way that the signal/noise was high, that the associated articles were relevant. I run htt

by markkat 15y ago

I see your point. I'm still not sure how it would be implemented in a way that the signal/noise was high, that the associated articles were relevant. I run http://hubski.com http://hubski.com that was built on top of news.arc. One of the things that I did to help tie posts together was to add tags. It's not perfect, but it does help pull up similar articles. You can follow tags too. EX: http://hubski.com/tag?id=architecture http://hubski.com/tag?id=architecture It's a tough call. HN does work for most people, I think. The maybe the potential blowback is not be worth experimentation at this point? PG seems willing to make changes, but he's conservative about it. Maybe from lessons learned?

ColinWright 15y ago
Here's a poll asking people about tags on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2367949 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2367949 To consolidate topics, I see a "Consolidation Node (CN)" being defined by anyone with enough karma. Topics can then be attached as children of that. Any submission that's a child of a CN gets a parent tag, and the CN has as its "thread" the children, sorted as the existing algorithm sorts. When a CN gets at least (configurable) number of children, the children are removed from the listing of submissions and the CN is listed instead. Ranking algorithm to be determined, perhaps the CN inherits the highest ranking from its children. Attaching a child to a CN can be flagged if it seems inappropriate. Just an example re-using existing ideas. No doubt there are half a dozen reasons why it wouldn't work, but it would make more space on the front page for fresh news, and link together existing discussions and reports from different angles.