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These submissions are just highest voted ones. Calling them best is a bit of misnomer, I think, something I find akin to having a site called "Best of the New Y
by Jun8 11y ago
These submissions are just highest voted ones. Calling them best is a bit of misnomer, I think, something I find akin to having a site called "Best of the New Yorker". I would make fun of someone who would consistently have that dictate their input instead of using their own tastes and serendipity to access the stories they would find attractive.
This is why I never have felt the need to use or would want to use the many tools listed under the other comments. The only purpose I think such aggregation creates is to understand the collective tastes of HN readers.
- dang 11y agoWe'd like to make a way for users to pick their personal bests and, if they want, share them. I'd be fine with renaming /best to /highest, except that it has been /best for so long that perhaps it would confuse people.