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Or maybe a page with different ranking parameters. If it pays less attention to time the all time greats stick around longer.
by jauco 15y ago
Or maybe a page with different ranking parameters. If it pays less attention to time the all time greats stick around longer.
- cs702 15y agoMaybe. The challenge in that case would be to separate popular submissions that remain relevant no matter their age (e.g., a timeless essay by pg) from those that quickly lose relevance over time (e.g., news, announcements).
- dholowiski 15y agoThis sort of exists already. There is a URL Parameter you can use to show stories rated over X votes. Or, build it yourself, post it on HN and get shit-tons of traffic - that's one of the great things about this site, there are very few features, but they're super-permissive about what you can do with the content. Just for fun, http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=500 http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=500
- cs702 15y agoThanks for that tip. You're right: the limited feature set is one of the best features of HN. As is the site's super-permissive policy. Alas, many if not most of the popular submissions returned by the "?points=" URL parameter are of an ephemeral nature (e.g., posts about SOPA and PIPA that no one will care about in a couple of years), as opposed to submissions of lasting relevance for the HN community (e.g., essays like "Worse is Better" -- http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html -- or "The Story of Mel" -- http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html -- both of which will be of interest to the HN community for a long, long time). I'm not sure it's possible to separate the truly timeless submissions from the ephemeral ones without relying on the judgment of the community.