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Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

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Post by justlearning »

"+/-" feature to show/hide threads.

Few times in a year there is an onslaught of "make hn as reddit" (which triggers the erlang effect). While this goes away after few days, there is a trickle of crowd who still persist on unimportant/distracting comments - which triggers more comments below. It would be great to hide these "unwanted" comments.

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

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Post by onedognight »

I'd like to see an iphone favicon, so that when one "Add To Home Screen"s a link to HN they would get a nice icon in the app list rather than an unrecognizable screen shot. A quick

   convert -resize 57x57 favicon.ico apple-touch-icon.png
would be blurry but would suffice. Of course, scaling down your original would be much better.

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

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Post by icey »

I'd like to suggest a new category for killfiled sites / submissions - ones that get to stay live but don't gain karma when other people try to submit them.

The recent submission flood of "37signals valuation tops $100 billion after bold VC investment" shows how this kind of dreck ends up on the front page - it's not from people agreeing, but people submitting blindly.

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

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Post by makecheck »

It may be nice to add scrollbars (with CSS, probably) to longer comments, so that "popular" threads take up less space. Or, just have a collapse mechanism.

This makes it easier to scroll past the end of the indented thread to find the next top-level comment.

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

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Post by chrischen »

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Voting quota on hn 1 point by chrischen 55 minutes ago | 2 comments | edit | delete I was wondering if it would be a good idea to try up/down voting quotas per day or something like that on hacker news. So right now, assuming there isn't some transparent quota in place, someone more keen towards voting(maybe because he or she has more time) has higher influence on the ratings overall.

Instituting a quota can make votes more valuable and meaningful, and standardized in terms of value to each person.

So for example if I voted on ten comments one day because I'm more liberal in voting, and someone else only gives 3 votes, I end up having more influence because of my lower standards for an upvote.

A quota of 3 upvotes Per day means those 3 votes will be rationed by everyone for the top 3.

Obviously the problem would be to find the right quota and determining how to let comments posted at the end of the day get a share of votes.

This is not to make it so that people who read more get less influence, but so that people who tend to read less comments per vote do not become overrepresented.

This is more of an enhancement idea.

So let me know what you think. And if I have any holes in my reasoning.

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