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YC voting arrows
Are they really needed? Why not just count clicks on links and ditch the arrows completely?
- pg 19y agoBecause sometimes stories are made to sound a lot more interesting than they are. Vallewag specializes in this. Ranking by clicks would encourage every submitter to do it.
- jgrahamc 19y agoIt would be cool if he system looked at what links I clicked on and then didn't vote up. That could be used to get an idea of what I didn't get excited about; perhaps that would could as a fractional vote down. John.
- izak30 19y agoA lot of clicks (at least most of mine) come from the RSS feed. I only come to the site when I really want to vote something up, or if I want to comment (or read comments). I'm a fairly passive user of YC, so a lot of my votes I didn't even 'click' from the site, so you'd also have to check those from the RSS feed for this to even remotely be effective.
- shayan 19y agowe only get to see the titles here if the system was designed to give a teaser of the article or maybe a separate voting of the quality of the article then we would know more clearly how good the contents are .. I guess voting up and down will help to some extend to solve the problem .. i would agree its not the most useful feature
- mwerty 19y agoAnother reason: Because you 'need' to advertise broccoli, not pizza.