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Let's post random wikipedia articles without commentary, turning HN into /r/todayilearned.

• pcl 13y ago
  So generally, I'd agree with you. But the thing is, this is so much more interesting than another 30 articles and links to tweets about Edward Snowden's current location that I'm perfectly happy to upvote it. At least I've learned something from the article, and something about how my body works, no less. And then something more from the HN discussion, in which jlgreco and agf posted interesting anecdotal about the topic.
• d0m 13y ago
  Go ahead, post all random wikipedia articles you want. The cool thing is how only the most interesting ones will be upvoted. Now that I think of it, that could be a neat small script to hack.. post random wiki articles on HN, let HN-ers upvote the good ones, and only read the best ranked ones.
  • endgame 13y ago
    Voting works well with small-to-medium communities of readers invested in the quality of discussion, but breaks down in large groups. Look at some of the larger subreddits - people in the comments complain about the quality of frontpage articles because the voting group becomes much larger than the commenting/discussion group. I wonder what's going to be the next big innovation in filtering the firehose?
    • eru 13y ago
      There are more interesting algebraic operations you can do on the voting vector than just adding it up..