Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes

Re:Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes by ColinWright on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @03:50PM (#7973080)

But that would mean that stories with only one point never get seen, and hence never get up-voted, and hence nothing gets to the 2-point page. It seems necessary that people should read "newest" and up-vote things they think are of value.

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Re:Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes by gus_massa on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @03:59PM (#7973137)

I agree. I usually read the (unfiltered) newest page, but sometime this is useful to find a story that was submitted 12 hours ago and only got 2 points. Perhaps the problem is that there are 928 stories submitted in the last 24 hours.

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Re:Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes by ColinWright on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @05:22PM (#7973591)

There is much to read, especially things that only get one up-vote, or even none at all. I simply click through the "More" link on the "newest" page gestalting the titles - there's nothing I can think of that would substantially improve on that.

Of course, that might simply be my lack of imagination.

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Re:Tell HN: Don't ask for upvotes by webhat on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @04:30PM (#7973334)

I use HN Search to find interesting stories I might have missed in the last 24 hours. Often these 1 or 2 point stories are very interesting and merely got lost in the stream.

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