Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
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#2The invite-only nature will only benefit the site while it's small. It will either stay small or suffer the same users as other sites. The down-vote with reason feature is nice.
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#3Puti.ns
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#4"It’s invite only."
So it's a clique. I thought we grew past these after high school.
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#5Ah, the what.cd strategy. Minus the exclusive content.
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#6I do not understand this obsession with politeness (on the web, in real life it's different of course). The whole point of web discussions is that one can say unpleasant truths.
If I have to interact in a scripted way, I prefer real life interactions.
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#7The invite-only nature will only benefit the site while it's small. It will either stay small or suffer the same users as other sites. The down-vote with reason feature is nice.
I'll be interested to see how they leverage the user tree. I'm no expert in social media bots, but it seems like the user invitation tree could be important to identifying not just networks of bots that are generating low-value content and trying to amplify certain viewpoints, but the people inviting those bots into the network in the first place.
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#8Anyone want to invite me?
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#9Anyone want to invite me?
Sure; just mail me (check profile).
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#10The invite-only nature will only benefit the site while it's small. It will either stay small or suffer the same users as other sites. The down-vote with reason feature is nice.
I'll be interested to see how they leverage the user tree. I'm no expert in social media bots, but it seems like the user invitation tree could be important to identifying not just networks of bots that are generating low-value content and trying to amplify certain viewpoints, but the people inviting those bots into the network in the first place.
It was already used when dealing with voting rings (resulting in termination of accounts)