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YHackers: Click that "New" link

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Re: YHackers: Click that "New" link

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Post by sidsavara »

mcormier wrote: post #11

Or you could check all the new postings with RSS. http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

That shows you every article that makes the front page, it does not show you articles that people have just submitted. An RSS feed for all submissions might be nice, but refreshing the new page every 30 minutes or so is also sufficient. Since they roll down in order you don't lose your place, but the front page articles "jump" into whatever place the algorithm determines, which is why I prefer to read the front page via RSS.

Re: YHackers: Click that "New" link

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Post by yan »

byrneseyeview wrote: post #16
haasted wrote: post #8

Perhaps some kind of incentive should be introduced? One way could be to reward "early promoters", eg. give karma to the first users that up-vote a story, which later makes it to the front page or reaches a certain number of votes.

That would make karma even more of a "guess who the average person would think the average person would think would win a beauty contest" game.

That's a "Keynesian beauty contest" for anyone who's interested.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest )

Re: YHackers: Click that "New" link

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Post by andrewljohnson »

This could be solved by using the one-box method that Reddit uses - make the top of the home page a new story without regards to popularity. I like that feature a lot.

Let's be real - people are going to do what's in their best interest - not what is good for the community. So, let's not count on people to vote and go to the New page. I think it's better to count on software engineering here, instead of social engineering.

Re: YHackers: Click that "New" link

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Post by yan »

byrneseyeview wrote: post #18
tsally wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really... what did you think you were going to accomplish by choosing that user name?

The account was registered 211 days ago. Was this the opportunity they were waiting for?

Based on her profile it seems to just be her initials. Maybe she saw that pg was taken and appended an underscore?

Re: YHackers: Click that "New" link

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Post by sidsavara »

yan wrote: post #22
byrneseyeview wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would make karma even more of a "guess who the average person would think the average person would think would win a beauty contest" game.

That's a "Keynesian beauty contest" for anyone who's interested. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest )

Thanks! That is awesome

Re: YHackers: Click that "New" link

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Post by tlrobinson »

sharkbrainguy wrote: post #3
sidsavara wrote: post #2

You know, I had a thought about this - why not make it an option to show me the 5 most recent new submissions on the bottom of the index page (e.g., the top 25 plus 5 latest). It's not a perfect solution, but at least I'll be aware it's there. I understand that could lead to some nasty gaming of the system though, just the first idea I thought of.

or a little DSL for us to specify what we wanted on our homepage. (def homepage (page (top 10) (newest 5)))
No? Not quite what you were looking for?

Re: YHackers: Click that "New" link

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Post by sidsavara »

tlrobinson wrote: post #26
sharkbrainguy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or a little DSL for us to specify what we wanted on our homepage. (def homepage (page (top 10) (newest 5)))

No? Not quite what you were looking for?

A little ugly, but a good 80% solution =P

Reminds me of this article -

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Complicator_0x27_s_Glove...

;)

Gloves!

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