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80+ stories a day is excessive. I would be in favor of PG rate-limiting submissions. If each article takes five minutes to read, it would take the submitter 6
by gvb 15y ago
80+ stories a day is excessive. I would be in favor of PG rate-limiting submissions.
If each article takes five minutes to read, it would take the submitter 6 hours 40 minutes(!) to read all the articles he submitted. This implies the submitter is not reading the articles before submission.
This worries me because it is indicating submission by quantity, not by quality, and the thing I love about HN is the quality of the submissions.
If some of the submissions would have been done by other people, that's fine. IMHO...
a) Don't hog the karma.
b) As pointed out by benologist, the weaker submissions would not have been submitted by others. The weaker submissions are therefore competing against other submissions that are more deserving of our attention, contributing to the dreaded "deterioration of HN quality."
- kls 15y agoDon't hog the karma. For me, I don't even care so much about the Karma but if one person is submitting 80 stories then it either creates a one dimensional feed (if the user is actually reviewing those articles) or it is automated and there is no guarantee of quality. Either way, I believe that it can only serve to decrease the quality of the site. I would be in favor of submission caps. I mean I read maybe 5 articles a day, that are worth re-posting to a larger audience. So capping it at 5-10 I think would not hurt the site, but stands a chance of improving the new feed (which is where I hang out)
- jxcole 15y agoUsers should be rate limited based on the average score of their last x (say 100) submissions. If their last 100 submissions got an average of 1 (no points) then they should be rate limited to 3 a day. If their average score for the last 100 is above, say, 30, then it's obvious the user is providing real value to the community and their rate limit should disappear.
- Udo 15y agoMaybe if everyone was rate-limited to, say, one submission per day the /newest section would be much cleaner. Ideally, it would also cost a little bit of karma to submit links.
- bartl 15y agoI don't like that. If anything here smells like Digg's "power users", this is it: the more you can post, the more karma you gain, and up goes your ceiling.
- jxcole 15y agoThat's the point of the 100 most recent. If they are power users and they can submit 80 posts a day, each of which gets at least 20 points, then they are obviously making a contribution. If they just have high Karma though, they won't necessarily be able to have a high limit. If they keep submitting crap in the hopes that a few will be upvoted, their average will go down. Also, you could try using median rather than mean and that might produce better results.