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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by gus_massa on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:37AM (#25903547)
Most new post are just too bad. (I've seen them.) People would write angry comment complaining that they are in the front page.

There is something similar, the mods cherrypick some post and they have a second chance and are shown in the front page for a small time. More details by dang in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by polote on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:37AM (#25904374)
More recently there was a bit of discussion about it here as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23096578

Out of frustration of not seeing a lot of good blog posts that are submitted everyday on HN. I built a newsletter which gather all (EDIT : a lot of ) the personal blog posts which didnt reach the front page in a newsletter https://hnblogs.substack.com/ (that's curated manually every day from /newest)

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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by city41 on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:00AM (#25904683)
From what I understand it's not every blog post, it looks to be still curated by you. Which is totally understandable, as otherwise there'd be way too many links in the email. Your newsletter helps (and I subscribe to it and am a fan), but I'd still say overall this is an unsolved problem on the modern web.
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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by polote on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:15AM (#25904878)
Yeah you are right, I edited my comment. It is not all of them. But I do think it is at least 50% of them. I apply an auto filter on the full list of links, and then I curate manually. In both the auto and the manual part some links are missed.

(Thank you for reading the newsletter)

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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by gus_massa on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:39PM (#25907731)
Nice list. Are you upvoting them too? (One of them have only 1 point.)

[Small nitpick: You should add a space between the title of each post and the URL.]

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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by polote on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:52PM (#25908693)
> Are you upvoting them too ?

No I don't, upvoting doesnt really make sense when the post is older than 1 hour.

> You should add a space between the title of each post and the URL.

Fixed it! I didnt know if it annoyed anyone

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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by gus_massa on Monday January 25, 2021 @05:54PM (#25910068)
In spite it doesn't make too much sense, if you like the post an upvote is nice for the submitter.

Also an additional vote may be useful to highlight it to the mods that cherrypick some post and they have a second chance to be shown in the front page for a small time. More details by dang in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by koheripbal on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:31AM (#25904296)
True, but not everyone needs to get the same new links. Server could return random different new posts to different users.

...and it could be every 5th post, so it's not a huge burden.

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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by hjek on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:47AM (#25905347)
> True, but not everyone needs to get the same new links.

Yea, as to create some sort of fairness in "guaranteeing" each new story a minimum number of views.

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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by dna_polymerase on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:48AM (#25903701)
> Most new post are just too bad. (I've seen them.) People would write angry comment complaining that they are in the front page.

Maybe weigh them by submitter's karma.

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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by kreeben on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:44AM (#25904463)
What about the newcomers? They're people too!
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