This is a really nice addition to HN. Hopefully this will enable more peer-to-peer engagement around issues that are of interest to the HN community. I know I will be checking this page out on a regular basis to see what I might be able to add to the discussion, and what I might learn from the rest of the HN community.
Just Ask HN (or more precisely, url-less) posts
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Re: Just Ask HN (or more precisely, url-less) posts
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ask HN posts are not meta posts, they can be but only a relatively small part of them are. Meta posts are posts discussing HN itself, Ask HN posts range from startup-reviews to job advice and all kinds of other stuff.
Ok, sure... but I still say please still rope them off in the same fashion. They are already discouraged from making the front page, and we might as well banish them completely.
I disagree. The ones that make the front page are often interesting and I use the front page as a filter to keep me from spending too much time on HN while at work (as I would bet a lot of other people do something similar as well).
I know you can treat the front page of the ask section the same way, but now its a filter of a much smaller set which means that "top 30" is not as good a filter (in addition to doubling the number of pages that are on a "front page").
I would think that its best to create disjoint sections only if people usually want to target one section or the other, which I don't think people do here (though if I'm wrong, I would agree with your idea).
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would seem to be vastly more useful then the "leaders" link that's currently at the top of the page. How many people (other than people actually on it and trying to climb the ranks) actually use that page ?
Ok, let's try switching them. See above.
Perfect. The karma game is old and tired. This puts the focus on the discussion, not the popularity contests. Thanks, pg!
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#45Great feature, thanks. A parallel feature for "rate my startup" posts would be useful; those self-posts also tend to get lost.
It doesn't seem to happen as much any more, but historically people used to post "rate my startup" posts without a url and just link to the start-up in the body of the text. If people did that now it'd show up in the Ask section, so maybe we should return to that practice.
Sometimes I may not the have time to review something, and just want a quick click to see if it catches my interest. I think having a clickable link helps with click through.
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#46Great feature, thanks. A parallel feature for "rate my startup" posts would be useful; those self-posts also tend to get lost.
I would like to note that I and 44 people that voted me up initially missed that the feature and code as written were for all self posts, not just for ask posts.
So far it looks like the feature is working perfectly; the vibrant discussions on self posts were one of the best things about the earlier days of Hacker News and Startup News.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would seem to be vastly more useful then the "leaders" link that's currently at the top of the page. How many people (other than people actually on it and trying to climb the ranks) actually use that page ?
Ok, let's try switching them. See above.
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Re: Just Ask HN (or more precisely, url-less) posts
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would seem to be vastly more useful then the "leaders" link that's currently at the top of the page. How many people (other than people actually on it and trying to climb the ranks) actually use that page ?
Ok, let's try switching them. See above.
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Re: Just Ask HN (or more precisely, url-less) posts
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would seem to be vastly more useful then the "leaders" link that's currently at the top of the page. How many people (other than people actually on it and trying to climb the ranks) actually use that page ?
Ok, let's try switching them. See above.
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Re: Just Ask HN (or more precisely, url-less) posts
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would seem to be vastly more useful then the "leaders" link that's currently at the top of the page. How many people (other than people actually on it and trying to climb the ranks) actually use that page ?
Ok, let's try switching them. See above.
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