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YHackers: Click that "New" link
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#12Yes, please do!
Really... what did you think you were going to accomplish by choosing that user name?
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#13The more I think about alternative solutions, the more the present, conservative (less vulnerable to being gamed) approach. The occasional reminder (like this one) is helpful: I know I get used to just scanning the front page.
As a compromise: what about a "new" that was set apart (in color, location, etc.) a little to act as a reminder?
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#14Perhaps 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.
Reward them with extra downvotes :)
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#15I didn't even know it was there. I'll keep it in mind now. In fact, I don't understand half of the features of hn, and I've been using it for more than a month. There really should be a user guide or FAQ or something.
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#16Perhaps 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.
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#17Not that this site needs to be like Reddit, but it pseudo randomly shows one of the new submissions as a separate first item on the front page. Something like this might be roughly equivalent to putting the newest 5 at the bottom of the front page though given that this site has a much smaller user base.
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#18Re: YHackers: Click that "New" link
#19Perhaps 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.
Yeah, but then there'd need to be a karma penalty for up-voting stories that don't (or you could karma pharm by up-voting everything).
Re: YHackers: Click that "New" link
#20Earlier 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?
Besides, the obvious pg-prefixed name to create for trolling would be pg-13.