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That's not really what people are sharing in this thread, to be honest.
I've read the thread and don't know what you mean.
It's literally the top comment and its children.
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#122If you want Lobsters style tags and filtering on Hacker News stories: https://histre.com/hn/ (d: mine)
Don't see any clues here as to how the tags are chosen and matched to stories. Can you provide further?
Sure, here is the Show HN for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904988 Thanks for checking it out. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
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#123I had an account here. I still do. Like some other people point out: Invitation-only means trolls are less likely to show up. But the higher end of quality is not significantly better than HN. If anything, it might be worse. My experience with the moderation there is that some people post clear self-promotion articles, but when I attempted to post my things, I get told that this content is not welcome on the site. Wh…
There's a little button on the submit form that adds a tag to say you're the author. If you forget it and it comes out, people tend to assume it's on purpose.
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#125I like the discussions there but looking for an account so I can post. Currently going through github issues and finding things I can fix so someone rewards me.
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It's literally the top comment and its children.
I've certainly read that thread, and I don't know what you're trying to say.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought you were trying to compare the Lobsters moderators to Dang in a positive way, something not really emphasized in the top comment and its children.
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#127I like the discussions there but looking for an account so I can post. Currently going through github issues and finding things I can fix so someone rewards me.
You seem like someone who can add to a discussion, and you like SDR stuff too. Figure out how to contact me using the info in my profile and I'll send you an invite.
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#128Any reason why HN source code is not published? The best I can think of is not to let people see the penalizing behavior, but having an open standard might actually help it improve rather than keeping it as a hidden secret that slowly gets discovered by independent malicious parties.
I would guess it's part of the ethos of not spending more time and effort on HN than strictly needed. Perhaps also a bit of the standard silicon valley culture of building on open source but not actually contributing anything meaningful back.
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#129Would be less of a ghost town if they allowed sign ups rather than via invitation only. Appreciate that's kinda the point of the site, but if it's a ghost town then it's clearly petered out.
It's not a ghost town, it's just not as noisy as HN. It's quite active.
I mean, compared to Hacker News in comment velocity and overall homepage change rate yeah it's a lot slower. Microscopically slow in comparison. Some people that are used to the fast-paced change of feeds like you have on bigger social media websites get used to the rapid pace of how things change. It can feel really weird when things _don't_ change that fast (such as how people bounce off of Mastodon because they don't know how to curate their feed anymore). I kinda like it, but I've been trying to break the addiction cycles of things like Twitter, so for each their own.
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I have never thought of it that way, and I'm still not sure I understand the idea. For some people the point of visiting a site is related to the number of votes or comments?
Well no the numbers aren't going to be a thing anyone directly cares about. Of course not, haha. Looking at my previous comments I'm not sure I even said anything that would imply that? What the numbers represent (how active the community is) is the bit folks would care about. In any case I used the numbers as a measure of how much the site is growing or not growing in response to the comment I responded to. The numb…
Thanks for clarification. I thought you were suggesting size or growth as a value themselves.
I agree people want some activity on discussion forums, otherwise what's the point. Another hand I think a lot of people think volume is inversely related to Quality once you get past a certain threshold