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Re: HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic

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Post by [deleted] »

joshu wrote: post #28
jacquesm wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obscure documentation pages are most likely not going to survive, I agree with you there. But I definitely do use it to 'bookmark' technology news and it is very rare that a link gets deleted. The bigger risk for deletions seems to be not tech related stuff but rather non-tech related stuff that manages to get a couple of upvotes. HN is social news simply because the audience can define it as such. The main ingredien…

Since when are discussions necessary for social bookmarking? Delicious doesn't have this. Like I said, it's a forum.

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Re: HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic

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Post by joshu »

jacquesm wrote: post #30
joshu wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since when are discussions necessary for social bookmarking? Delicious doesn't have this. Like I said, it's a forum.

They're not necessary but they don't hurt either. As the coiner of the term, you may want to update the wikipedia article which, after listing the basic requirements says: "As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks". So there seems to be a convergence of terms and services here. I think the major difference between social bookmarkin…

I said that comments aren't necessary, not that having comments make it not social bookmarking. Wikipedia doesn't disagree with me.

Lots of systems have ways to mark things for later. Gmail lets you star stuff. Also not bookmarking.

Please explain how a firefox extension that replaces the internal bookmarks with HN might work. Because it'd be weird, don't you think?

This all goes back to the confusion due to idiots who think Digg is social bookmarking as well.

Re: HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic

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Post by jacquesm »

[deleted] wrote: post #31
joshu wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since when are discussions necessary for social bookmarking? Delicious doesn't have this. Like I said, it's a forum.

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I understand your frustration because you want it to mean one thing and the 'idiots' that use the term to describe digg are spoiling that but with terms that are new and in flux you don't get to nail down the definition for ever.

If a large enough number of people use a word in a certain way that becomes its meaning. So whether you agree with it or not, by de-facto use sites like 'digg' are now social bookmarking sites, like it or not.

Words tend to drift like that and the newer a word is the bigger the chance that it will exhibit some of that drift.

I agree that a firefox extension that replaces the internal bookmarking system of firefox with HN would be 'weird', but not as weird as you might think at first glance.

You'd have to live with the fact that your bookmark for a cake recipe would stand a good chance of being axed and some more details like that but as it is, with 'showdead' on I can retrieve all the stuff I ever posted, even the deleted articles.

Add tagging to articles and you'd pretty much be there.

So it's closer than you might think!

Re: HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic

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Post by ArcticCelt »

pvg wrote: post #9
vaksel wrote: post #4

the fact that they have HN as having 2.4 times more referrer traffic than reddit makes me question this. Look at the numbers, HN is a top 3,000 site, reddit is a top 300 site.

http://www.raterush.com/pages/digg-reddit might explain this somewhat. A huge chunk of reddit links are back to reddit, to imgur and to things like major newspapers and youtube. If only a few of these are not actually tracked by Woopra, the results would get skewed significantly.

Then for the few legitimate remaining articles, I'll postulate that reddit users go to comment after only reading the headline and never follow the link of the article. Maybe HN readers are more diligent and do read/visit the articles more often.

Re: HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic

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Post by joshu »

jacquesm wrote: post #30
joshu wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since when are discussions necessary for social bookmarking? Delicious doesn't have this. Like I said, it's a forum.

They're not necessary but they don't hurt either. As the coiner of the term, you may want to update the wikipedia article which, after listing the basic requirements says: "As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks". So there seems to be a convergence of terms and services here. I think the major difference between social bookmarkin…

Can you please provide a definition for social bookmarking that includes the uses you are but is also not overlapping with other things? (Otherwise, you wouldn't need the term as distinct from other definitions, obviously.)

The confusion stems from when Kevin Rose started calling Digg social bookmarking to help raise VC, and was adopted by people who are only understanding superficially (the front pages look kinda similar, so clearly they're the same thing!) Kevin then stopped using the term.

I think you either understand this superficially as well. There are many things that I could use to serve some obscure purpose without that being the primary purpose.

Or perhaps you are just trolling.

Re: HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic

#36

Post by jacquesm »

joshu wrote: post #35
jacquesm wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not necessary but they don't hurt either. As the coiner of the term, you may want to update the wikipedia article which, after listing the basic requirements says: "As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks". So there seems to be a convergence of terms and services here. I think the major difference between social bookmarkin…

Can you please provide a definition for social bookmarking that includes the uses you are but is also not overlapping with other things? (Otherwise, you wouldn't need the term as distinct from other definitions, obviously.) The confusion stems from when Kevin Rose started calling Digg social bookmarking to help raise VC, and was adopted by people who are only understanding superficially (the front pages look kinda si…

I think the term 'social bookmarking' has expanded from its initial, narrow definition of 'a service where you can bookmark stuff and share those bookmarks with others and potentially tag them' to the point where the general public will interpret it as to be wide enough to include sites like /., digg, reddit and HN, whereas before that time it was limited to sites like furl, diigoo and deliciou.us. Witness the title of this article. For me the key element is that the majority of the discussions use a link as the topic starter.

I understand that initially the definition was a more narrow one, but since this seems to be the way people use it nowadays I'll just go with the flow, I have no vested interest in seeing the definition being used in one way or another.

To me a 'forum' is a site where people will come to discuss a subject, occasionally using links to illustrate the point.

I think that it is not very friendly to try to label someone that is having a fairly long conversation with you a troll just because you apparently disagree with them.

Re: HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic

#37

Post by joshu »

jacquesm wrote: post #36
joshu wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please provide a definition for social bookmarking that includes the uses you are but is also not overlapping with other things? (Otherwise, you wouldn't need the term as distinct from other definitions, obviously.) The confusion stems from when Kevin Rose started calling Digg social bookmarking to help raise VC, and was adopted by people who are only understanding superficially (the front pages look kinda si…

I think the term 'social bookmarking' has expanded from its initial, narrow definition of 'a service where you can bookmark stuff and share those bookmarks with others and potentially tag them' to the point where the general public will interpret it as to be wide enough to include sites like /., digg, reddit and HN, whereas before that time it was limited to sites like furl, diigoo and deliciou.us. Witness the title…

It's more your weak use of logic and lack of supporting points makes me think you are trying to make me annoyed rather than prove your point.

I do not think that "it has links to start discussions" make it a social bookmarking site. I think it is bookmarking + public that make it a social bookmarking site.

HN is a forum and a social news site. Delicious is social bookmarking and maybe a weak social news site, but not a forum.

Slashdot, also mentioned in the article, is DEFINITELY not a social bookmarking site. Surely you agree with this?

Incidentally, I picked a random forum, and looked at a few items. They all seemed to be started around links: http://www.r8talk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=fa7531fdc42e...

Re: HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic

#39

Post by z92 »

jey wrote: post #26
joshu wrote: post #24

This data is sounds biased. Delicious did in the BILLIONS of monthly PVs when I left - I really doubt HN throws more traffic in aggregate.

Yeah, this just shows that they have an install base hugely skewed towards sites that techies read.

That doesn't explain why slashdot is 0% though.

Re: HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic

#40

Post by vaksel »

pvg wrote: post #9
vaksel wrote: post #4

the fact that they have HN as having 2.4 times more referrer traffic than reddit makes me question this. Look at the numbers, HN is a top 3,000 site, reddit is a top 300 site.

http://www.raterush.com/pages/digg-reddit might explain this somewhat. A huge chunk of reddit links are back to reddit, to imgur and to things like major newspapers and youtube. If only a few of these are not actually tracked by Woopra, the results would get skewed significantly.

that's just the front page though. Reddit has a ton of subreddits...which people subscribe to. When they do, the stories from that subreddit show up on your main page.
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