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> This is a simpler approach Having a secret cabal of editors, whose behavior and rules are not documented, is simpler than spending karma to vote against thin
by codinghorror 18y ago
> This is a simpler approach
Having a secret cabal of editors, whose behavior and rules are not documented, is simpler than spending karma to vote against things? Really?
- tptacek 18y agoYes. A lot.
- codinghorror 18y agocan you elaborate?
- tptacek 18y agoWhat's there to say? Submitters veer off topic. You hit the "flag" button. The story gets marked "dead". How is my life improved by the prospect of having more work to do to groom the site? It's like people used to say about micropayments; all these little knobs exact a mental cost; I have to spend 5 cycles deciding what to do --- mod up? mod down? what are other people doing? do I need to care? Seems to me like Hacker News is doing the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly work. A good thing.
- codinghorror 18y agoThe simplest thing is finding and blessing 30 people with the right to kill flagged entries? And trusting those 30 people to do the right thing? Wouldn't it be simpler to automate the whole thing, and let the algorithm do the work?