HN frontpage ranked by discussion activity
news.ycombinator.comThis overrides a feature that I've seen described as the 'flame war detector'. If I understand the feature correctly, stories with a high ratio of comments to votes get a large ranking penalty. They tend to vanish suddenly and irreversibly from the front page when they pass the threshold, because they'll keep getting comments from participants, but don't have much opportunity to get any more votes from newcomers.
For instance, the "Google tips off cops..." story is ranked 12 here, but has fallen to around 200 in the normal ranking.
Any reason why "classic" is not on this list: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists ?
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what is "classic"?
Ranked by upvotes from users who signed up in the first year. It was made as a counter argument to the idea that the site was declining in quality.
And its opposite, noobstories: https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories
I'm curious why they don't have this up at the top normally.
FYI, you can find it at the bottom of the page.
should /ask be in that list?
What's the point of noobstories?
Probably making spamfiltering easier
How about "slow" or "old" which would show submissions in which discussion still happens after x time units after submission date.
Is there an opposite version? I've found that many of the best submissions have a high points-to-comments ratio.
You could try /best [1], which is just highest points overall.
Please put links for these views to the top!
I think the top will get too cluttered. Here is an overview: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists.
Although, not all lists are up there, like: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic