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Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by bringtheaction »

ZenoArrow wrote: post #57
bringtheaction wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Problem with by points is that over time as more people come to HN the number of points are worth less, unless HN does like Reddit does and weighs them but even then such a system tends to change over time and so it’s still not comparable. For example say that several years ago a post might hit front page and 500 people would vote on it. If 300 people voted up and 200 down then it gets 100 points. Fast forward and no…

You can't downvote posts on HN, you can flag them but you can't downvote them. On HN, downvoting is only possible on comments.

You are right I forgot that, heh. Anyway, the problem remains that over time there will be more people to upvote so a post is likely to get more points if it was posted in the future than in the past.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by dang »

avinassh wrote: post #70
dang wrote: post #5

You can also to go https://news.ycombinator.com/front to bounce around how HN's front page looked on past days, like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-06-20 . Or click on the date in an account's profile to see what HN looked like on its birthday.

There seems to be a bug, I can see pages of Feb 30, 31 - https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2017-02-31

Yikes! Thanks for letting us know.

Edit: should be fixed now.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by fghtr »

bringtheaction wrote: post #71
ZenoArrow wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't downvote posts on HN, you can flag them but you can't downvote them. On HN, downvoting is only possible on comments.

You are right I forgot that, heh. Anyway, the problem remains that over time there will be more people to upvote so a post is likely to get more points if it was posted in the future than in the past.

Not really. Just tried to upvote an old post from 10 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243417

As a result, its score did not increase, although upvoting "worked".

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by wila »

aswerty wrote: post #68

With regards to Classics, the "You're probably using the wrong dictionary" blog post at http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary was probably the most interesting pieces I've read on HN.

Very nice indeed. Immediately ran downstairs to verify a Websters encyclopedia dictionary I bought in the UK around 1997 only to find it wasn't the version with all the prose. It's still a very nice illustrated (and heavy!) dictionary, but not quite like what jsomers describes.

So downloaded the version he offers for download and am now installing the dictionary using the steps he provides.

Thank You, really looking forward to using it.

edit: and his install steps still work, using it in the dictionary app right now. Super!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

#78

Post by bringtheaction »

fghtr wrote: post #76
bringtheaction wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are right I forgot that, heh. Anyway, the problem remains that over time there will be more people to upvote so a post is likely to get more points if it was posted in the future than in the past.

Not really. Just tried to upvote an old post from 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243417 As a result, its score did not increase, although upvoting "worked".

No I mean that a front page post five years ago had fewer people to vote on it so it would get fewer points simply for that reason compared to a front page post today.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by linopolus »

avinassh wrote: post #70
dang wrote: post #5

You can also to go https://news.ycombinator.com/front to bounce around how HN's front page looked on past days, like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-06-20 . Or click on the date in an account's profile to see what HN looked like on its birthday.

There seems to be a bug, I can see pages of Feb 30, 31 - https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2017-02-31

Nice thing is, the go back a day link links to Mar 02
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