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I feel that a plan such as that proposed would just increase the "noise" level on the site while doing little to add to the overall quality of the content - ind
by bdfh42 18y ago
I feel that a plan such as that proposed would just increase the "noise" level on the site while doing little to add to the overall quality of the content - indeed it could just have a negative impact.
I am guilty (if that's the word) of posting the odd Seth Godin item but I am pretty selective about the ones I post. From time to time Seth's blogs can sound like they came out of a fortune cookie and then along comes an absolute corker with direct relevance to HN. Blindly posting them all would just add to the (rapidly growing) stream of new stories that are not going to get any up-votes - adding yet more noise and making the signal just that little bit weaker.
- davidw 18y agoI guess to really get a good idea, you'd have to take a survey like this: * Look at all the posts from site X in the past, say, 3 months. * See how many have been posted to HN * See how many of those got votes. If the percentage is small, then adding the site automatically would generate noise. If, on the other hand, the site is paulgraham.com, they all get submitted and they all get tons of votes, so it would make sense to automate it.