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Yes. But more so I'd like the ability to curate and follow lists of people that post comments and articles that I am interested in. It seems to me that this idea from twitter could be used to stop Eternal September problems on sites like HN and reddit (the subreddit system is not fully effective.)
Might work as long as tags are not user defined. The submitting user has to select from existing tags. Keep a few to begin with. For example: startups - news about or related to startups - IOW what this site was supposed to be about initially gadgets products - new products from existing non-startups hacking - related to programming business advice other - stuff that probably needs to be flagged unless enough people…
Might work as long as tags are not user defined. The submitting user has to select from existing tags. Keep a few to begin with. For example: startups - news about or related to startups - IOW what this site was supposed to be about initially gadgets products - new products from existing non-startups hacking - related to programming business advice other - stuff that probably needs to be flagged unless enough people…
Look at Digg and its naïvely broad topics: they're nowhere near as useful as user-defined tags. A story on a TCP bug is in completely different interest areas to a story on Apple's Smart Cover, yet both are filed under "technology" in Digg.
Might work as long as tags are not user defined. The submitting user has to select from existing tags. Keep a few to begin with. For example: startups - news about or related to startups - IOW what this site was supposed to be about initially gadgets products - new products from existing non-startups hacking - related to programming business advice other - stuff that probably needs to be flagged unless enough people…
Except that things in the "other" category are not off topic, and shouldn't be flagged even if only a few people upvote them.
Per the guidelines, what's on topic is:
"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than
hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might
be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
Personally, I am opposed to limiting tagging to only a handful of pre-determined tags. But if that must be done, I'd prefer a much wider range of tags. The tags you list are far too limiting.
For instance, I am interested in Lisp, but not in Java. "Hacking" just doesn't do a very good job of filtering these.
I am interested in "gadgets", but don't want to see another iPhone or iPad story for as long as I live.
HN should allow a wide range of tags (ideally completely determined by the users or story submitters).
Might work as long as tags are not user defined. The submitting user has to select from existing tags. Keep a few to begin with. For example: startups - news about or related to startups - IOW what this site was supposed to be about initially gadgets products - new products from existing non-startups hacking - related to programming business advice other - stuff that probably needs to be flagged unless enough people…
== Categories and even there i doubt the "might work"
But only if I can block specific tags. I would also suggest the application of default tags, such as "n00b" when the article is posted by someone with less than (total_age_of_hn / 5), "anonymous" (with strong flag bias) when the account is less than a day old, "oldie" when it's a dupe that was reposted. Anyone would suggest more?
I think tags would be a pretty good idea. I'd like to be able to ignore gadget porn (here's this new iPad cover!) by default, and weigh the programming/science/DIY hacking/design topics higher.
Might be too much load on the server, though, as it will actually mean that every user has his own front page.