Re:Fake Steve Jobs jokingly misquotes PG's recent essay
by procrastitron on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @02:21PM
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But then how do you explain the popularity of this post? It was completely vacuous, but is still at 13 points as I write this.
Re:Fake Steve Jobs jokingly misquotes PG's recent essay
by raganwald on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @02:39PM
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It's all statistics. My suggestion is that HN is supposed to be a better filter than just ignoring bloggers who infrequently post good things.
And this off to a long digression about the opportunity cost of reading the bad articles vs. the benefit of reading the good ones and on and on...
But yeah, it's not perfect. If anything, if there were no articles you disliked on the front page, then HN would probably be too conservative a filter.
You don't like most of his posts, but it's also the case that most of his posts are not on the HN front page. And thus, we have the value proposition for Hacker News: instead of filtering based on the author, filter based on the votes here.