As always, thanks Dang for your presence. HN is the most civil place I’ve found on the internet in the better part of 30 years.
I’m wondering if the mistake was letting things make the front page, when maybe page 2 is acceptable even for people who feel vehemently about trash submissions. If we as a community can expect some pain in order to find better content it might be worth it (especially if we can train people not to abuse mods at the same time). I dunno. The idea of adding noise to smooth out results is a very common technique in signal processing, I’d like to think it’s useful in this context as well.
I will say, as an anecdote, I find the variety of interesting content isn’t as high as it was 6 years ago (let alone 10). And weekends tend to be better IMO. I assume the community has shifted, but even just being bigger is going to tend to lower the variance of topics. So I really appreciate any effort made towards helping quality interesting topics surface.
I’m wondering if the mistake was letting things make the front page, when maybe page 2 is acceptable even for people who feel vehemently about trash submissions. If we as a community can expect some pain in order to find better content it might be worth it (especially if we can train people not to abuse mods at the same time). I dunno. The idea of adding noise to smooth out results is a very common technique in signal processing, I’d like to think it’s useful in this context as well.
I will say, as an anecdote, I find the variety of interesting content isn’t as high as it was 6 years ago (let alone 10). And weekends tend to be better IMO. I assume the community has shifted, but even just being bigger is going to tend to lower the variance of topics. So I really appreciate any effort made towards helping quality interesting topics surface.