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I understand the endless desire to tweak, I really do, but HN simply doesn't have anywhere near the volume of posts Reddit does. This place has the same feel a
by recuter 13y ago
I understand the endless desire to tweak, I really do, but HN simply doesn't have anywhere near the volume of posts Reddit does.
This place has the same feel as:
http://www.reddit.com//r/depthhub http://www.reddit.com//r/depthhub
Most of the action is in the comments and a lot of the traffic is from lurkers. Its a slow roll in other words and frankly there is a very finite amount of good quality new posts to be had.
That is the real problem - try and rank this place more optimally by hand as an experiment, it simply won't take that long. Where is all the great content you are trying to algorithmically float?
- jedberg 13y agoI don't actually think HN has a problem, I was just suggesting that if I were wrong about that, here is an alternate solution.
- amerika_blog 13y agoThat place is the worst of the self-congratulatory, narcissistic, Reddit hive-mind.
- recuter 13y agoI'm afraid I have to stand by the analogy. ;)
- cLeEOGPw 13y agoWhat I think they should at least do is remove penalty for 40+ comments. I see where this is coming from, the desire to always have "quality discussion" effect by showing only those comment sections with very few comments, usually quite insightful as it usually come from people interested enough in the often obscure topic, but what it also does is kills discussion. At least they could make penalty growing gradually, not something that suddenly activates as soon as there are 40 comments.