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This is an aside--fogus, you are on fire today. 5 posts in the top 30? Where do you find all this good material. :)

by physcab 17y ago

blasdel 17y ago
He subscribes to a great many of the same feeds that I do, but he usually submits the links first (he's the initial submitter on ~5 links a day!). It'd be interesting to graph story upvotes over time, distinguishing /\ ones from double-submissions. I didn't see this one in my reader, though the author is a member: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=KirinDave http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=KirinDave
- mahmud 17y ago
  I wish for the both of you to stop doing this, both for your own good and that of HN.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    I've voted you up because I agree with the spirit of that, if HN really is nothing but an aggregator for a bunch of quality feeds we might as well shut down the input queue and automate it, that would nicely take care of the spam. The problem I've got with posting stuff from 'the same feeds' is that it tends to drown out the non-mainstream (and non techcrunch ;)) stuff, which is what really makes HN interesting. Between all the spam posts and the 'feed pushers' a lot of really good content never makes it to the home page and so is lost to a great many readers. Personally I've switched to the 'new' page as the homepage of HN long ago, but even there if you look the other way for one or two days it's hard to catch up because of all the fluff.
    - blasdel 17y ago
      At least for fogus and I, 'the same feeds' are geniuses like Christian Neukirchen, not problogger noise. I too despair over cool stuff sliding off the 'new' page into oblivion -- the only surefire way for an article to make it to the front page is for multiple people to submit the same URL, which can get rather unlikely for the most valuable posts. I usually try to wait until a reasonable PST hour to submit odd things, just to maximize the chance that clueful users will have the chance to give it those first few upvotes. I do think some countermeasures should be added to news.arc to handle the mainstream spam-stream. I think a good first step would be good to stop counting link-karma towards user totals, but I don't have a clear idea of what else would help.
  - physcab 17y ago
    Although mine was implicit, I don't see what's wrong with casually thanking people in the HN community for submitting good articles from time to time. Today was especially noticeable because I enjoyed all the articles that came from the same username. I didn't mean to suggest anything else.

This is an aside--fogus, you are on fire today. 5 posts in the top 30? Where do you find all this good material. :)

by physcab 17y ago

This is an aside--fogus, you are on fire today. 5 posts in the top 30? Where do you find all this good material. :)

He subscribes to a great many of the same feeds that I do, but he usually submits the links first (he's the initial submitter on ~5 links a day!). It'd be interesting to graph story upvotes over time, distinguishing /\ ones from double-submissions. I didn't see this one in my reader, though the author is a member: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=KirinDave http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=KirinDave

mahmud 17y ago
I wish for the both of you to stop doing this, both for your own good and that of HN.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  I've voted you up because I agree with the spirit of that, if HN really is nothing but an aggregator for a bunch of quality feeds we might as well shut down the input queue and automate it, that would nicely take care of the spam. The problem I've got with posting stuff from 'the same feeds' is that it tends to drown out the non-mainstream (and non techcrunch ;)) stuff, which is what really makes HN interesting. Between all the spam posts and the 'feed pushers' a lot of really good content never makes it to the home page and so is lost to a great many readers. Personally I've switched to the 'new' page as the homepage of HN long ago, but even there if you look the other way for one or two days it's hard to catch up because of all the fluff.
  - blasdel 17y ago
    At least for fogus and I, 'the same feeds' are geniuses like Christian Neukirchen, not problogger noise. I too despair over cool stuff sliding off the 'new' page into oblivion -- the only surefire way for an article to make it to the front page is for multiple people to submit the same URL, which can get rather unlikely for the most valuable posts. I usually try to wait until a reasonable PST hour to submit odd things, just to maximize the chance that clueful users will have the chance to give it those first few upvotes. I do think some countermeasures should be added to news.arc to handle the mainstream spam-stream. I think a good first step would be good to stop counting link-karma towards user totals, but I don't have a clear idea of what else would help.
- physcab 17y ago
  Although mine was implicit, I don't see what's wrong with casually thanking people in the HN community for submitting good articles from time to time. Today was especially noticeable because I enjoyed all the articles that came from the same username. I didn't mean to suggest anything else.