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If people actually start doing this, it'll make getting anything off the new page even more difficult. Besides, I don't think the articles on the front page ar
by tikhonj 13y ago
If people actually start doing this, it'll make getting anything off the new page even more difficult.
Besides, I don't think the articles on the front page are a problem here. And if they are, it's often the highly voted ones! Really interesting technical posts often don't catch eyes quite as well as controversial posts about news or politics, so I think a threshold like this would filter them out disproportionately.
- bane 13y agoHowever it will prolong interesting discussions.
- cpeterso 13y agoI agree, though my HN bookmark is for points over 3 points so at least a three other people thought the article wasn't totally useless: https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=3 https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=3
- malandrew 13y agoSolution to increasing the ranking of interesting technical posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613260 However what I really want is the ability to follow those stories that are read and upvoted by a basket of overs whom I've come to respect via their insightful comments (e.g. michaelochurch, cperciva, nostrademons, tptacek, pg, fogus, raganwald, yummyfajitas, etc. etc. etc.) A front page based on the stories upvoted by those users whose comments I most want to read would be awesome,