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Re: Hacker News full of Erlang articles

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Post by hvs » Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 11:39 PM UTC

ErrantX wrote: post #16

icey wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's kind of dumb since all it takes to get the _why stuff off the front page is for people to upvote other submissions that are arguably more relevant (and current).

and flag the _why stuff

Which I started doing when it got out of control, but I'm apparently in the minority. I don't really care one way or the other, I just don't read what I'm not interested in.

Re: Hacker News full of Erlang articles

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Post by njharman » Fri, Aug 21, 2009, 12:02 AM UTC

I thought I'd hit the way back machine.

But really, even before why worship HN seemed really piss poor lately. Until few weeks ago I hadn't visited in long time and they types and quality of articles was way down from what I remember.

I've only ever been interested in about 20% of what's posted but recently I felt compelled to read only 1-2 postings a day. And the mix of articles that were uninteresting had shifted from Haskell this / circle jerk around my new startup to really poor fluff.

funny pics get 40 votes http://8bitb.us/why-well-never-hire-another-rockstar-program...

videos http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/hd/

Re: Hacker News full of Erlang articles

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Post by mechanical_fish » Fri, Aug 21, 2009, 12:27 AM UTC

Interesting. In the absence of a downvoting feature, HN has evolved a mechanism for clearing unwanted articles off the homepage: Massively upvote an entire home page's worth of alternative articles. This is done by groups of unrelated people who concentrate their votes by using the word "Erlang" as a flag.

I'm not sure this will end well.