Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?

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Post by gus_massa » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:11 PM UTC

miiiiiike wrote: post #7

ColinWright wrote: post #3

Posts on the Front Page got there by being voted on when on the "newest" page, there is (almost) no other way of getting there. So everything you see on the Front Page was once taking its chances on getting noted on the "newest" page, and succeeded. And to answer your question, I always visit "newest", and if there's something there I like, or that I think is informative, useful, or relevant, then I upvote it. There…

No. If someone submits a link that’s been submitted recently their submission upvotes the original. I’d wager that that’s how most links hit the front page.

This may work for some sites like big newspapers like the NYT), sites like TechCrunch, or big announcements like a new Apple product. Without any evidence, I'm sure that most (80%/90%?) of the post that reach the front page get there accumulating votes or by the "second chance" [1]

[1] I don't remember the official name. The explanation by dang was linked in other comment. I'll copy it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 The details are part of the secret sauce, so the details may have changed.

Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?

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Post by dickmao » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:23 PM UTC

I use https://github.com/dickmao/nnhackernews as my newsreader, and so my default view is "new". The filtering is the most naive possible (only show brand new submissions or comments for articles you've read). When I wake up, there are 200-300 new submissions on the queue. Of those I might click through on 1-2. The morning ritual takes about 2-3 minutes. In my haste I'm sure I'm skipping some interesting-to-me items.

The holy grail is of course a toutiao filter. Netnews has always been needles-in-haystacks since Usenet. The migration from nntp to http has imo made the problem worse. At least with reddit's subreddit granularizing, one stands a chance of getting read. With HN's monolithic "news" category, it's all pretty random.

Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?

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Post by skeptical900067 » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:39 PM UTC

Once every two months I'll vote 3-5 times in 'new'.

Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?

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Post by OrgNet » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 9:37 PM UTC

oplav wrote: post #37

simon_acca wrote: post #19

Somewhat 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.

They do this, but it shows up on the bottom of the front page and it isn’t random. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

> and it isn’t random.

that might be a problem

and I think it is a problem by looking at the posts on the front page with very low vote counts... they appear to be ads sometimes.

Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?

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Post by wiseleo » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 7:36 AM UTC

Every so often when I tell myself I have nothing better to do, like while falling asleep.

Re: Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?

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Post by Rapzid » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 7:13 PM UTC

Update: I'm going to make a point to go through the new page more often and upvote development/programming/comp-sci related articles. I have a feeling a lot of us complaining about that HN front page is containing less-and-less hacking related articles are the same ones that never go through new and upvote stuff :|