It's interesting how few favorites the articles actually have.
Most-favorited Hacker News posts
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Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts
#152Notice that the 19th most favorited post is also flagged. ("Those People We Tried to Cancel? They’re All Hanging Out Together"). To me, that indicates the flagging mechanism on hn is broken.
Have you actually read that thread? It's a garbage fire. To me, flagging worked as intended.
Apparently quite a lot of HNers disagree with you, and liked it well enough to save it. That should be enough to indicate the article is appropriate for hn.
Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you actually read that thread? It's a garbage fire. To me, flagging worked as intended.
Apparently quite a lot of HNers disagree with you, and liked it well enough to save it. That should be enough to indicate the article is appropriate for hn.
And the low quality of discussion it produced and the number of flagged comments should be enough to indicate that it wasn't. Because people don't just flag for the article, they flag for the thread as well.
Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently quite a lot of HNers disagree with you, and liked it well enough to save it. That should be enough to indicate the article is appropriate for hn.
And the low quality of discussion it produced and the number of flagged comments should be enough to indicate that it wasn't. Because people don't just flag for the article, they flag for the thread as well.
Then the comments should be flagged, not the article. There wasn't anything wrong with the article, and apparently it was interesting to the hn crowd - which according to the guidelines is exactly what makes it acceptable.
EDIT: to respond to your edit, there was an entire thread discussing this in the article discussion. The article should be flagged if there's a problem with the article, and comments should be flagged if there's a problem with the comments.
Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts
#155I personally find the comments far more interesting than the stories. Does anyone know some HN users with interesting favorited comments?
If anyone thinks the list of posts here is very heavy on programming things, feel free to browse my favorited comments. I have quite the mix of all topics. The usual disclaimer applies - these are just my HN favorites, I do not endorse them. Many favorited comments are completely wrong, they are not medical, legal or financial advice, I am not licensed to sell insurance etc etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=owenversteeg&comme...
Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts
#156I personally find the comments far more interesting than the stories. Does anyone know some HN users with interesting favorited comments? If anyone thinks the list of posts here is very heavy on programming things, feel free to browse my favorited comments. I have quite the mix of all topics. The usual disclaimer applies - these are just my HN favorites, I do not endorse them. Many favorited comments are completely w…
Is it possible to favorite a comment on HN?
Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts
#157I personally find the comments far more interesting than the stories. Does anyone know some HN users with interesting favorited comments? If anyone thinks the list of posts here is very heavy on programming things, feel free to browse my favorited comments. I have quite the mix of all topics. The usual disclaimer applies - these are just my HN favorites, I do not endorse them. Many favorited comments are completely w…
Is it possible to favorite a comment on HN?
Only once you click a comment's date to access the permalink.
Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts
#158I personally find the comments far more interesting than the stories. Does anyone know some HN users with interesting favorited comments? If anyone thinks the list of posts here is very heavy on programming things, feel free to browse my favorited comments. I have quite the mix of all topics. The usual disclaimer applies - these are just my HN favorites, I do not endorse them. Many favorited comments are completely w…
Is it possible to favorite a comment on HN?
Yes, click the timestamp on the comment and you'll see the full range of actions.
Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts
#159The fact that favorites are a hidden feature and hard to use made me think the quality of the curation signal would be even better. Also the fact the HackerNews API, Angolia don't expose this feature made it even more interesting to aggregate. Hope you like it and as it was a pain gathering the data, I put it in an observable notebook so hopefully we don't need to gather that dataset again for a while. The learning r…
What does Angolia have to do with HN?
Edit: found it, it's Algolia. Thought s/he was talking about Angola.