Some ideas I've had include having multiple up/down vote buttons for different criteria -- one that says if you agree or not with the content, and another one that says if it is a well reasoned and interesting post. That way I can pull up things that people in my cohort think is a good post but also disagree with content wise. But this requires that people are reliable able to judge something fairly that goes against their view.
Then I'd like to see "bubbles" that show which cohort(s) I belong to and which other ones are out there so I can choose which to read at any one time.
I'm sure there's a good amount of obscure content that doesn't get appreciated because it never reaches the people that would enjoy it.
It shows you what you're interested in, not what adtech, or social media barons, or VCs, think you should be reading for your own good. Or for "engagement."
Something something echo chamber? Probably. But it's not as if we don't have those already.
The issue with having a model that does it for you is that your going to immediately start fighting against it and its decisions.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I have always avoid pushing “hide” since I assumed a new submission would pop up at the bottom and I never wanted to go beyond the top 30 as I feared I would stay on the site for a bit too long.
That said, could be implemented as a rolling decade. The term is “classic”. For cars that takes 25 years. Ten for tech seems fine.
I just scrolled to its frontpage[0] and the top story was “Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry”[1].
Any other explanations why `https://news.ycombinator.com/classic` turned back to this date?
Funny, since I remember lurking for years before making mine!
> a view that only counts votes from accounts which are more than a year old, or some other criterion which reduces young and drive-by accounts
Are you sure you know what the motiviation for accounts older than 2008 is (are you sure it's reducing young/drive-by accounts?)
Have you thought about what that motivation might be?
Its continued existence is just a historical artefact.
As far as I can see it's not linked from anywhere in the UI, and is only occasionally referenced in comments.
Nothing to be miffed about!
I would be much more well-disposed to a view that only counts votes from accounts which are more than a year old, or some other criterion which reduces young and drive-by accounts, while still allowing people to eventually count as old-timers.