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You know full well that karma is tracked on HN.
No. I had no idea it was. Even now I'm not sure I believe you.
... it's the number in parenthesis next to your username.
Too much noise in HN? (Open question)
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Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)
#42One thing that can help the whole community is to look at the list of stories submitted by noobs http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories once in a while and flag those that are plainly spam or very badly off-topic. Sufficiently many flags kill a submission.
cool I can save a ton of money on a used shipping container. Do these guys not realize that HN is no-follow?
Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)
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Classic counts the votes of only the users who have been with HN for > 1 year.
How did you know about this? I seemed to have missed the boat on this one.
There was a post on Hacker News quite a while back about it. I wish there were another option for members over 2 years too so that "classic" remains "classic".
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Classic counts the votes of only the users who have been with HN for > 1 year.
How did you know about this? I seemed to have missed the boat on this one.
I searched searchyc.com for about 10 - 15 minutes to give a link to the post where pg mentioned that he created "classic" view and that classic and regular are not much different - which means growth hasn't harmed us much. Sorry I couldn't find it. (Usually I'll obsess over it until I do find - but I have to change this habit)
Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)
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No. I had no idea it was. Even now I'm not sure I believe you.
Then I'm sure you won't mind me down voting you for being ridiculous (since "x points" is the first thing at the beginning of every comment/submission)
I thought the points was just a rating for the comment or submission. I didn't realize those points were transferred to the user that made the comment/submission.
As for your down voting me, whatever. Enjoy. I don't even know what use karma can be on this website. Though at least now I know there is some.
Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)
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How did you know about this? I seemed to have missed the boat on this one.
I searched searchyc.com for about 10 - 15 minutes to give a link to the post where pg mentioned that he created "classic" view and that classic and regular are not much different - which means growth hasn't harmed us much. Sorry I couldn't find it. (Usually I'll obsess over it until I do find - but I have to change this habit)
ahh, I remember that thread. I must have just promptly forgot about classic.
Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)
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No, he's saying that the quality is variable. Sometimes they have one great album and the rest are poor, or an album has a few great songs and the rest sounds like filler.
Wow. That's so unique to indie music. I couldn't even imagine any other genre of music who's quality varies.
Well, yeah I guess you're right. But you kinda straw manned me there by changing the subject from an indie band and their work to a general genre. I expect more mainstream bands to consistently be good or bad, but not have the ups and downs I've heard from a couple indie bands. That and it fit my own explanation of how things vary from day to day.
But yeah, you're right, my experience blinded me. And cheer up, your comment seems out of place.
Re: Too much noise in HN? (Open question)
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Oh please don't let this turn into reddit.
It's not tags which would turn HN in to Reddit. It's the community. If HN's community was identical to that of Reddit, HN would turn in to Reddit (minus the tags). But HN's community is not the same as Reddit, which is why the articles which are submitted and upvoted on HN generally differ from Reddit (with some overlap, of course). I don't see how not having tags helps anything or anyone. It just keeps the article s…
HN is more like a subreddit than reddit itself. Adding tags would allow the original Startup News users to sequester themselves into the article threads they enjoyed, while new people would join the community unnoticed and uninitiated. Eventually the front page would boil over with TechCrunch and Apple gossip.
Tags are bad because keeping the article space flat keeps out people with only marginally similar interests.