How do you add yourself to the Hacker News Circle? I added the circle to my stream. Anything more I need to do?
Yeah, I found this incredibly confusing as well.
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#12Thanks! This is bound to liven up my stream. I will refrain from adding myself to the HN circle though as I'm currently only a wanna-be hacker. But I do have have a fear of other wannabe hackers adding themselves to the circle and maybe polluting my stream with content that isn't as high quality as I'm used to on HN. (no upvote/downvote mechanism)
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#13How do you add yourself to the Hacker News Circle? I added the circle to my stream. Anything more I need to do?
https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts it's just a page. if I understand correctly what's going on on the page, we need to add people to our own circle every time they publish the updated circle.
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it looks fine except people who write public posts in their native language which I do not understand. I hope the author thought about spam prevention or we'll get lots of 'funny videos and pictures' profiles in there soon.
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#14Can I get an additional explanation of what to do?
> "I added myself and followed the circle"
I followed the group and added myself through hngp.axxim.net/insert, but do I have to add the ~650 people to my circle, or is just following the page enough?
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#15All I can say is: WOW!
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#16Can I get an additional explanation of what to do? > "I added myself and followed the circle" I followed the group and added myself through hngp.axxim.net/insert, but do I have to add the ~650 people to my circle, or is just following the page enough?
You need to add everyone in the shared circle to one of your circles for things they share to show up in your stream.
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#17Can I get an additional explanation of what to do? > "I added myself and followed the circle" I followed the group and added myself through hngp.axxim.net/insert, but do I have to add the ~650 people to my circle, or is just following the page enough?
When you're on the page-- click "add circle" in the middle of the circle at the top of the page, that will allow you to follow all 689 people at once
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#18Isn't the whole point that if these Hacker News G+ results are good they should be shown to everyone and if they aren't then they should not.
This isn't a 'social' problem it's a ranking problem, right?
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#19This is a smart move. There are many interesting directions and questions.
(1) Can we choose to give a particular search weight to different Google+ groups that are against our profile? I'd like to see what Hacker News thinks the search results should be and I'd like to see what my friends think the search results should be.
(2) Following from the previous point, I believe Google could effectively turn this into a sort of auto-generated "sub-reddit" system that does not require link submission, instead being powered by "+1". Or how about the top +1's from the group this day, week, year? The only things missing would be (a) comments by group users, and (b) some generic Google way of searching for public groups or tying these to internet communities.
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(4) What happens when spammers start adding themselves to the hngp.axxim.net Hacker News circle and then when we add this circle to our Google+ we start getting sponsored search results? Can we stop this? An active profile with a high average karma seems to me like an acceptable solution for a higher quality group but I guess we can't get that information easily... I wonder if the guy who created the Hacker News circle will allow us to update our profile in the circle to include our Hacker News username?
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#20Can I get an additional explanation of what to do? > "I added myself and followed the circle" I followed the group and added myself through hngp.axxim.net/insert, but do I have to add the ~650 people to my circle, or is just following the page enough?
You need to add everyone in the shared circle to one of your circles for things they share to show up in your stream.
Thanks for the information. So I'd have to periodically go and update that group in order to get everyone's feeds?