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This new system saves me a lot of time by making HN less attractive.

• pg 17y ago
  That could be good, if it did it by removing bad attractions. Some controversial threads with large numbers of votes were starting to feel like fights that attracted a crowd of onlookers. Those are very engaging, certainly, but it's probably better for both fighters and onlookers to have less of them.
  • b3eck 17y ago
    If you're trying to prevent the wrong sorts of attractions, you might also try it on a selective basis. For example, if a thread hasn't received a vote in the past hour or day, or if a user isn't logged in and can't vote, you could continue to display the votes in that thread.
  • blasdel 17y ago
    The solution to that is to make the vote scores logarithmic. Removing information helps nobody.
    • deleted 17y ago
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