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Related to this, take a look at how lobste.rs handles new members: you either need an invitation from an existing one (and your behaviour is associated with tha
by stevejalim 13y ago
Related to this, take a look at how lobste.rs handles new members: you either need an invitation from an existing one (and your behaviour is associated with that person in the public tree of membership referrals) or you go into a member-visible queue until someone who knows you and is a member can invite you personally.
- jackgavigan 13y agoThat's very clique-y.
- intended 13y agoAnd This appears to be the lesson from the life cycle of High Signal to Noise ratio sites. Initially there is the bleeding edge, and then there is the long noisy end.
- tptacek 13y agoNet result: nobody uses lobste.rs.
- akinity 13y ago10 points to Gryffindor!
- tptacek 13y agoIt sounds snarky, but I don't mean it that way. I like the guy who runs lobste.rs and I'm happy he published the code, and I'd really like HN to have some real competition. But, sorry, nobody uses lobste.rs. It's a ghost town. For what it's worth, I think the answer to site quality isn't pre-filtering users; it's having a simple process to nuke bad users. Lobste.rs put a big bet on pre-filtering; it hasn't worked out. I'm not surprised; one thing I look for on great HN threads is the random first-party (owner of company, primary author of package, &c) commenter who joins just to comment on that story, which is something that can't happen in the pre-filter model.