Re:Ask HN: Why are you sorting by new?
by kkfx on Friday April 08, 2022 @11:54AM
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News are a flow, any news might matter at any point in time, of course, but news are most useful to elicit trends, know what's up in the world. Scoring by super-interesting thing is useful to learn, not to follow actual state of thing, witch means it's useful for a student who start learning something, not for a "pro".
IMVHO that's why modern scoring is bad: the good scoring must be personal, like reading news (usenet) with personal scoring, saving things that interest you for future analysis and to pass them summarized to third parties wishing to learn.
That aspect is often ignored by many but we aren't (unfortunately) the Borg, we are a society, but not "a collective" witch means we can't pass knowledge directly and any of us have metabolized just a certain part of human knowledge, that's why mere scoring "following a collective recommendation engine" does work a bit but not as good as a similar personal engine.
IMVHO that's why modern scoring is bad: the good scoring must be personal, like reading news (usenet) with personal scoring, saving things that interest you for future analysis and to pass them summarized to third parties wishing to learn.
That aspect is often ignored by many but we aren't (unfortunately) the Borg, we are a society, but not "a collective" witch means we can't pass knowledge directly and any of us have metabolized just a certain part of human knowledge, that's why mere scoring "following a collective recommendation engine" does work a bit but not as good as a similar personal engine.