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Now if you could add a filter like this to the 'newest' page that would be really useful! Then you would be able to see new posts, but filter them by say 5 poi

• ballpoint 13y ago
  This might cause a tragedy of the commons though. If everyone thought in that way, no new posts would get any upvotes.
• malandrew 13y ago
  The problem there is that many posts will never even get votes because people don't see them. This is the tragedy of the commons. If everyone enjoys this same convenience, then nothing gets discovered. What we really need is a relationship between points and number of click throughs / views. If a post has 100 views and 4 votes, it should be roughly equal in value to a story that has 25 views and 1 vote. In fact this ratio approach might help bring more attention to the really high quality technical articles that are esoteric but high value. Take a tech-focused BBC article for example, which often hit the front page. They are typically pablum with low value content, but they receive lots of votes relative to everything else because of their popular appeal. Since they appeal popularly, I would expect that they get an order of magnitude more views than an blog article exploring the minutiae of LXC containers. Those number of views should serve to devalue each vote that the article received.