Solving The Hacker News Problem

Re:Solving The Hacker News Problem by SoftwareMaven on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @08:17PM (#2252502)

The problem with using karma is that it is affected by the regression to the mean. As more "average" people come in, more "average" people will give them karma. Solve that problem, and you might have a solution to the whole problem (I, for one, am not smart enough for that ;).

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Re:Solving The Hacker News Problem by richchan on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @11:57PM (#2253113)

Alternatively, perhaps we can let users select (follow) a set of like-minded people and make the up-votes of the people they pick weigh more on a "customized" front page.

But then people may have not like having their up-votes be so transparent..

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Re:Solving The Hacker News Problem by mkr-hn on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @09:33PM (#2252739)

Maybe some mix of karma, account age, and the number of upvotes received from first-year members to give a person's votes weight.

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