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Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

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Re: Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

#11

We're screwed now... techcrunch isn't exactly known for its overly insightful comments. Welcome digg-like users!

The arrival of less insightful people is inevitable. The goal should be presenting the site such that they matter less or don't bother coming.

Insightful isn't a type of person, it's a type of idea.

Re: Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The arrival of less insightful people is inevitable. The goal should be presenting the site such that they matter less or don't bother coming.

Maybe there should be some kind of validation before you can start posting and taking part in the discussions. A smart way of doing this would be to let potential new users write a bit about themselves, and let existing users vote on whether or not they should be allowed to post based on their introduction of themselves. Another way would be to let new users have a quota of comments that could be raised if the initia…

Slashdot implemented something in something similar long time ago (I guess they still do it) and I don't know why nobody ripped that off. To start moderating your account need pass a certain threshold of "oldness".

I think the moderation is even more important because when people start modding down valid coments or modding up stupidity that's what make me want to leave. That's when I got annoyed with Digg +-2 years ago and Reddit +-1 year ago.

Re: Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

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post #9

We're screwed now... techcrunch isn't exactly known for its overly insightful comments. Welcome digg-like users!

If there is an influx, the lack of fluff will scare them away for quite a while. It was over about a 12 month period of time that reddit went from being occasionally political to being totally dominated by Ron Paul/Obama fanatics. Rome wasn't destroyed in a day.

It was faster than that. There was very little fluff in April 2006, and by August 2006 it was overrun.

Re: Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

#15

We're screwed now... techcrunch isn't exactly known for its overly insightful comments. Welcome digg-like users!

The arrival of less insightful people is inevitable. The goal should be presenting the site such that they matter less or don't bother coming.

Well put. It'll be interesting to see how pg and team handle something that every other site has failed miserably with.

I've got high hopes.

Re: Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe there should be some kind of validation before you can start posting and taking part in the discussions. A smart way of doing this would be to let potential new users write a bit about themselves, and let existing users vote on whether or not they should be allowed to post based on their introduction of themselves. Another way would be to let new users have a quota of comments that could be raised if the initia…

Slashdot implemented something in something similar long time ago (I guess they still do it) and I don't know why nobody ripped that off. To start moderating your account need pass a certain threshold of "oldness". I think the moderation is even more important because when people start modding down valid coments or modding up stupidity that's what make me want to leave. That's when I got annoyed with Digg +-2 years a…

I've been wondering that too. Slashdot has gone through all of the problems that face digg, reddit, etc. And they have found some pretty good solutions through trial and error. They are even well documented here: http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml

Generally I am amazed that moderation systems are not better than they are, especially since the stakes seem to be so high in this niche right now.

Re: Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

#20

We're screwed now... techcrunch isn't exactly known for its overly insightful comments. Welcome digg-like users!

ugh, here they come... really hope place does not devolved into something like the digg/slashdot/techcrunch comment sections

it was nice while it lasted ; )

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