Thanks for that, I'll try to remember to do that more often.
Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?
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Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?
#22I almost never even browse by New, but when I post a post I wish more people did heh
Sites like Reddit and HN really need to display new and popular posts/comments side by side. HN already gives new comments a chance by putting them at the top, but they could take it further.
Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?
#23Voting cartels. That's the only way anything gets any attention anywhere these days.
Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?
#24I do quite often, both because my content addiction requires more than the front page provides and my vanity likes the idea that my comment will be read by a lot of people if the post makes it to the front page.
Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?
#25Is there a new tab :P
Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?
#26To be frank I never visit the new tab, only the home page and I don't bother going to page 2, like the majority of members I believe.
On the other hand, I actively hide threads I'm not interested in, like petty politics or things that have absolutely nothing to do with technology.
Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?
#27Imgur's community once made an experiment: people browsing ‘new’ were to upvote everything at all, to show the frontpage crowd what garbage they deal with. It sorta worked in that regard, but actually stuff that was upvoted to the very top turned out to be most delightfully wacky, more so than I've seen on the web in years, before or since. That night was the best time Imgur has delivered, for me. A part of it is that on Imgur, you mostly only glance at pics for a second to get the crux and move on (at least before all the videos). Not wade through a text for ten minutes.
They also had (maybe still do?) the phenomenon of ‘late night Imgur’: when most US normies are off to sleep, only weirdos are there, and lots of strange stuff is floating to the front page. Mostly taking some frightening form.
But in fact, ‘new’ on Imgur is an unending stream of complete trash: no-effort meme pics made by teens spiced up with thousand-time reposts. I have no idea how anyone can be browsing that.
Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?
#28Somewhat off topic, but I would welcome having a very small section of 2-3 randomly selected posts from “new” show up on top of the regular home page. That way “doing my part” in scanning over the enormous volume of new posts becomes frictionless.
Yeah I've often thought this would be a good idea as well. Maybe they could be annotated somehow, e.g. blue color title, similar to how new users are green.
Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?
#29I do quite often, both because my content addiction requires more than the front page provides and my vanity likes the idea that my comment will be read by a lot of people if the post makes it to the front page.
Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?
#30Mostly when I submit something myself and then I come back to it during the day. So take a look at my submission list, multiply that by 3, and that's how many votes I gave to the new tab, presumably.