Ask HN: Ideas to Improve HN

Curious if single post (potentially monthly) on generating (actionable) ideas on improving HN would help HN improve.

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(1) Top-Level-Comment-Format:

- IDEA: (One sentence)

- VALUE: (who needs what and why)

- ESTIMATES: Time & Resources

- VALIDATION: How will you know success happened? How would you compare it’s success with prior efforts? How would you know to when to failure happens or related efforts should end? (EDIT: Clarification of meaning “validation” — that being the topic of validation is limited to validation of the “value” not validation of anything else, including but not limited to validation of a given implementation technically, roadmap, etc.)

One idea per top-level comment to enable clear understanding of votes.

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(2) Top-Level-Comment-Response-Suggestions:

- FEEDBACK: on idea

- VARIATIONS: of idea

- VOLUNTEER: Planning, Beta, Coding, supporting, financial, maintenance

Suggest limiting each top-level comment to a single topic to enable clear views of voting.

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(3) META-COMMENTS:

Lastly, I will create a top-level comment for meta-comments on the idea of “Ask HN: Ideas to Improve HN“ — which is where all comments about this post should go; all other top-level comments should be “Ideas to Improve HN”.

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DISCLAIMER: Other than having a meaningful understanding of HN/YC, I have no relationship with either. That said, if this makes the home page, I’ll ping the HN mods to insure they’re aware of it.