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What is the point of any information filter? I am not sure if you are being difficult or if its not as obvious as it seems to me. A lot of stories are submitted
by dfc 14y ago
What is the point of any information filter? I am not sure if you are being difficult or if its not as obvious as it seems to me. A lot of stories are submitted to HN everyday. I like the variety of the HN inbox but a lot of the "new stories" are redundant or just plain boring. Filtering for links with one or more upvote helps separate the wheat from the chaff.
- ninetax 14y agoBut what if everybody did that? How would any story get more than 1 vote? Somebody has to dig through the garbage to get the good stuff right?
- dfc 14y agoHow is this any different than an argument against the frontpage? What if everybody only read the front page? Addendum: (It seems tonight is be difficult night on HN. I really did not expect any responses to the rhetorical question above.) As it is I rarely read more than the first page of new stories. With a filter like this I would help curate the new stories and would contribute more to the curating process than I currently do.
- philh 14y agoThen new links would start appearing on the front page once the current content got sufficiently old. (To clarify: I am merely answering your question, not expressing an opinion.)
- lmm 14y agoI suspect going through a page of 1-point stories is a more valuable contribution than going through several pages of 2+-point stories.