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Yes it's the old "fixing the signal to noise ratio by adding lots of noise" gambit.
by icey 17y ago
Yes it's the old "fixing the signal to noise ratio by adding lots of noise" gambit.
- hughprime 17y agoNot a bad gambit actually -- I'll sometimes turn on my air conditioner to drown out the sound of my neighbour's music. The analogy only works if, like me, you consider Erlang articles to be a sort of white noise that you hardly notice, and the-programmer-formerly-known-as-_why articles as being slightly annoying.
- hvs 17y agoIt appears to be working, too.
- icey 17y agoIt's kind of dumb since all it takes to get the _why stuff off the front page is for people to upvote other submissions that are arguably more relevant (and current).
- ErrantX 17y agoand flag the _why stuff
- hvs 17y agoWhich I started doing when it got out of control, but I'm apparently in the minority. I don't really care one way or the other, I just don't read what I'm not interested in.
- gloob 17y agoFront page is a positive feedback loop. People upvote the stories they see.
- apotheon 17y ago. . . if, by "working", you mean "replacing one form of noise with another, much louder form that will probably outlast the likely lifespan of the original form".