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> For me the objective of "most up votes" is not fully correlated with where I get the most value on HN. Most of the time, the most up voted I would have found

> For me the objective of "most up votes" is not fully correlated with where I get the most value on HN. Most of the time, the most up voted I would have found them anyway on other platforms. Yes, this is a fantastic point. I'm curious if there's some other measurable proxy metric for "things I get the most value out of on HN"? Upvotes seems like the most natural but optimizing for it too strongly would definitely take HN down a dark path.

losteric 2y ago
Perhaps selecting for posts with the highest quality reply engagement? If many different people were drawn to lengthy discussions, that suggests the content sparks thoughts that others then feel compelled to engage with. Or select for the emotional content of replies, awe/empathy/anger, depending on what one wants from HN?
- kcorbitt 2y ago
  Ohh, I really like that as a potential proxy metric!
- hatthew 2y ago
  lots of platforms optimize for engagement, but all that does is encourage ragebait
coolcoder613 2y ago
Perhaps number of comments, or number of non-flamewar comments, or proportion of flamewar comments together with number of comments?