Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
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#942I think that a feature that would allow for more rational discussion would be good.
Like, you declare claims, say how they depend on each other, and participants could say which claims they agree with, and which they don't. Within each claim, there'd be a thread where you discuss it.
I think that this would seriously improve the quality of discussion.
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#943I have an idea to discourage deletion and resubmission. Apply a -1 penalty to the deletion of a story. It's small enough to not penalize too much honest mistakes, and it's a signal that deletions are bad. (If the user still continues to delete and resubmit, use the current method.)
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#944Please let article links to be opened in a new tab.
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#945Categories so that I can find the specific topics that I'm interested in.
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#946Also, perhaps some site-initiated intros to other members would help with the feeling of 'small community' that a lot of people seek.
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#947I'd like to be able to reset my password. The only option available appears to be to create a new account, or email Paul Graham.
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#948Suggestion: this thread should have the comments sorted differently than normal with a heavy biased towards newer comments (e.g., everything posted in the last year is sorted separately and placed ahead of everything else or comments are simply sorted by their date). The thread is a bit of a mess right now; the proposed change would make it easier to navigate and provide exposure to newer feature suggestions, which I assume are more relevant because the suggestions older than X that aren't implemented have either been reviewed and rejected or placed on a shortlist somewhere.
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#949A thought on "pending comments". Use this mechanism as a way to community-moderate [dead] posts. This may reduce or eliminate the need for a permanent hellban on individuals. For instance, someone who posted something that got them banned a year back, but has consistently posted good quality posts since, could have their posts un-deaded by individuals with sufficiently high karma, bringing them back into the conversation. If a sufficient number of their posts are resuscitated, then remove the auto-dead from their future posts (or queue them for review by moderators).
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#950There should be an app or something where we list 1) problems, and 2) startup ideas. We also vote on them.
* There's value in discovering good startup ideas via the wisdom of the crowd.
* There's value in just seeing a list of ideas to help with brainstorming.
I think that this will lead to more startups being started, which is a good thing. It'll help people who don't start one because they don't have an idea. And it'll lead to some pretty good ones being started because the wisdom of the crowd will produce some good ideas.
Whether or not this succeeds depends on the community of users. HN has the perfect community for this. Thus, I propose that an "ideas section" be added to HN where you could add and vote on problems and startup ideas.