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That's an awesome idea. I've been playing with something like that, but what would you like to see?
by heliostatic 15y ago
That's an awesome idea. I've been playing with something like that, but what would you like to see?
- ArekDymalski 15y agoI have to think about it for a while and will let you know, because there are 2 important things to consider: what will be visualized and how. In case of how you've got plenty of options: colors, size and even some icons or graphs. But before deciding on the form the crucial part will be what. And that requires defining some kind of methodology for measuring the dynamics of what I've called 'the heat of discussion'. I personally (probably like mmatey) come to HN to learn something new and discover new opinions, reflections and reactions of the people. Some important metrics of a good thread might be: number of commenters, length of comments, number of 1-on-1 ping-pong comment exchanges where the answers are upvoted by other people. You know discovering the threads where people are actually discussing something, because current system of HN ranking doesn't differentiate such threads from topics where 200 hundred people comment "Yeah, me too" ;) Well, these were just few unstructured reflections, I'll get back to you later if I'll have something more interesting and you'll be interested.
- ArekDymalski 15y agoBefore I dived into abyss of overthinking I've got a dead simple solution to my need called "How to detect the valuable discussions on HN". What do you think about opening the links in 2 frames? One contains the source page and the other contains the discussion thread on HN? It still doesn't solve the main problem "Should I even click on the link?", but would be nice anyway.