reddit variation: top instead of hot, random instead of new, vote up to discuss, vote down when done

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677

by amichail • 19 years ago

2 10 19 years ago

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amichail3• 19 years ago

Do you think this variation on reddit would be interesting?

- the front page would be like reddit's top

- instead of a new page, there's a random page that shows links in completely random order (each refresh shows a new random order)

- vote up if you want to bring a link to the front page

- vote down when you want a link to disappear from the front page (e.g., you don't like it or you like it but don't want to see any more discussion on it)

amichail3• 19 years ago

The random page could also take into account the link score so that links with higher scores have a better chance of ranking more highly.

mauricecheeks• 19 years ago

that seems considerably less random ;-)

randallsquared3• 19 years ago

I'm not sure I see the point, actually. Why would this be more interesting than the current reddit behavior?

amichail3• 19 years ago

Users would have more control over what appears on the front page and for how long. Also, old submissions would still have a chance to make it to the front page.

akkartik• 19 years ago

I like it.

dfranke• 19 years ago

This would stop working once the ratio of total submitted articles to current active users got too high. Articles would start to appear on the random page so rarely that nothing could get a statistically significant number of votes.

reddit variation: top instead of hot, random instead of new, vote up to discuss, vote down when done

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