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Poll: HNer types
I was thinking about the type of users that make up this community. I know what type of activities I do with the site on a daily basis, and I know they are not enough to keep the site going. So I conjectured that there are a number of 'primitive roles' that are needed to keep this site operating well. My list is:
Posters: They post new articles they find from the outside world.
Commenters: They comment on stories they find on the front page.
Upvoters: They upvote stories they like on the front page.
Filterers: They frequent at the 'new' page and upvote stories they like there.
Readers: Those that simply read the content (nothing wrong with that, they are probably the largest group by far).
So, please vote up the set of roles that you feel describes the activities you do a lot of.
- silvestrov 17y agoUs reader-only voters are hypocrites!
- fugue88 17y agoSo are us reader-only commenters! P.S. I upvoted you. :)
- wdewind 17y agothis is inherently skewed. many reader onlys dont have accounts and so wont vote and so will be vastly underrepresented. like asking how many people who voted for president are under the age of 18.
- alexandros 17y agoFair point. Nothing I can do about it though. In any case, the interesting bit is the correlation between the other roles.
- javanix 17y agoThere are a lot of options on here - I think you might run into trouble with people not feeling like scrolling all the way down to the bottom of the list.
- alexandros 17y agoI guess it would be nicer to have four options and the choice to click all applicable, and then have a combination results view. I guess we have to work with what we have.
- prakash 17y agoDo you see the irony in your poll :-)
- ax0n 17y agoI lurked via RSS only for a very, very long time before I made an account. Now, I still primarily read, but I also comment. I occasionally hit the "new" page and upvote things if I have some free time.
- dylanz 17y agoIf I find something interesting, I usually don't even think about posting it, as I'm too lazy to check to see if it's a duplicate or not. Is there a cure for that problem (or my laziness)?
- dsil 17y agoThere is! If you submit a link that has already been submitted you'll just be sent to that post's page instead of posting a dupe.
- JeremyChase 17y agoThis works, but not a perfect solution because the URL must be identical. For example if I post the link to the 'printable' version of a page this will not work if only the standard page has already been posted.
- dmpayton 17y agoI don't post because I most of my information from HN and Reddit. I let the community be my filter. I do occasionally comment, though, and I read lots.
- antirez 17y agoPretty impressed by the number of reader-only having an account.
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- nollidge 17y agoI think it's implied that everybody is at least a reader. Would get a little tedious to see that on every voting option.