Poll: Do you visit the 'new' section of Hacker News?

Re:Poll: Do you visit the 'new' section of Hacker News? by jgrahamc on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @07:59AM (#2806938)

I wish the new page had two columns. The right column would contain posts that have been flagged, the left column would contain unflagged posts. This would free up space for more valid posts to get looked at by allowing spam posts to be quickly moved aside. The posts could be moved aside when some threshold of people had flagged, and any post I flagged would be moved aside in my view of the new page.

Also, it would be good if posts that have made it to the front page were removed from the new page freeing up even more space.

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Re:Poll: Do you visit the 'new' section of Hacker News? by rednum on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @08:55AM (#2807060)

The column approach seems to make things clunky to me. From my viewpoint it would be better to see flagged posts grayer - just as comments with negative points, possibly with setting threshold in preferences (since it would be quite stupid to see eg. all page of 'grayed' posts).

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Re:Poll: Do you visit the 'new' section of Hacker News? by solipsist on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:33AM (#2807790)

How about giving the option of a two column view for users with a high enough karma. 'Top HN' on the left and 'New HN' on the right. As a result, the people with high enough karma to flag would be more inclined to scan the 'New HN' pages and further improve the quality of HN.

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Re:Poll: Do you visit the 'new' section of Hacker News? by Dysiode on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @01:56PM (#2808575)

Even given to everyone it could still be beneficial.

I personally simply forget there's a /new/ much of the time, having the option to have new posts passively presented while I'm skimming would be tremendously helpful.

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Re:Poll: Do you visit the 'new' section of Hacker News? by foob on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @02:00PM (#2808599)

"Also, it would be good if posts that have made it to the front page were removed from the new page freeing up even more space."

I would really dislike it if those stories were removed. If it's only been an hour or two since I've gone through the front page then it's unlikely that there will be more than a couple of new stories there. Instead of rereading every title on the front page I can just go to the new page and scan for articles with scores above whatever threshold I'm in the mood for until I recognize one of them. Giving some indication that a post has been flagged might be nice but I don't see why having the new front page stories on the new page is a bad thing.

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