Is ccraigIW a script that submits an rss feed every morning?

Re:Is ccraigIW a script that submits an rss feed every morning? by andreyf on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @10:04AM (#477066)

That's actually an experiment I've been meaning to get around to coding up for quite awhile: create a user to submit every post from 37signals, Joel Spolsky, Seth Godin, etc. Also, factor in top stories from programming reddit, Slashdot with a lot of comments, etc. and see how well it does.

If anyone else wants to do it, I'd be really interested in the result.

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Re:Is ccraigIW a script that submits an rss feed every morning? by radu_floricica on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @10:17AM (#477088)

It was discussed at length about a year ago. The consensus was it's both not nice and a bad idea in the long term.

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Re:Is ccraigIW a script that submits an rss feed every morning? by mixmax on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @10:19AM (#477091)

Not to diss the idea, which is certainly interesting from an intelllectual standpoint, but I would flag your auto-generated user if I knew what it was.

There's enough noise on the new page already.

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Re:Is ccraigIW a script that submits an rss feed every morning? by yan on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @10:33AM (#477107)

I wouldn't be so hasty to call it noise, or more accurately call the manually-submitted articles from those sources signal. How much coverage would you say JoS, 37s blog, seth godin get here already? I wouldn't be surprised if more than 90% of all new posts from these blogs wind up here.

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Re:Is ccraigIW a script that submits an rss feed every morning? by Tichy on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @10:44AM (#477127)

That used to be true for xkcd, too, but thankfully it seems to have disappeared. Same might happen to the other blogs you mention, if quality deteriorates. For example JoS lately has been writing more about his office woes and business travels than about software engineering in his blog.

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Re:Is ccraigIW a script that submits an rss feed every morning? by matthavener on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @10:26AM (#477103)

Whats the big difference between a post made by a script or by a human? A clever title?

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Re:Is ccraigIW a script that submits an rss feed every morning? by cstejerean on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @11:49AM (#477201)

A post sent by a human indicates that a human has found that particular post interesting. Automatically submitting every article from a blog using a bot I think goes against the spirit of this site. If everyone agrees that every single article on that blog is interesting then they can subscribe to it using RSS and keep the articles out of HN.

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Re:Is ccraigIW a script that submits an rss feed every morning? by bkrausz on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @10:58AM (#477140)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150864

I made an xkcd script and ran it for a week...it did decently well. The community consensus was that most people already have XKCD in their RSS feed, so it's just noise. Something more intelligent that posted stories based on popularity (startup idea anyone?) might fly, but I think people would be pissed if they found out it was a script.

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