What is the point of any information filter? I am not sure if you are being difficult or if its not as obvious as it seems to me. A lot of stories are submitted to HN everyday. I like the variety of the HN inbox but a lot of the "new stories" are redundant or just plain boring. Filtering for links with one or more upvote helps separate the wheat from the chaff.
How is this any different than an argument against the frontpage? What if everybody only read the front page?
Addendum: (It seems tonight is be difficult night on HN. I really did not expect any responses to the rhetorical question above.)
As it is I rarely read more than the first page of new stories. With a filter like this I would help curate the new stories and would contribute more to the curating process than I currently do.
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What's the point of a pre-curated "new stories" page?
What is the point of any information filter? I am not sure if you are being difficult or if its not as obvious as it seems to me. A lot of stories are submitted to HN everyday. I like the variety of the HN inbox but a lot of the "new stories" are redundant or just plain boring. Filtering for links with one or more upvote helps separate the wheat from the chaff.
But what if everybody did that? How would any story get more than 1 vote? Somebody has to dig through the garbage to get the good stuff right?
How is this any different than an argument against the frontpage? What if everybody only read the front page?
Addendum: (It seems tonight is be difficult night on HN. I really did not expect any responses to the rhetorical question above.)
As it is I rarely read more than the first page of new stories. With a filter like this I would help curate the new stories and would contribute more to the curating process than I currently do.
Then new links would start appearing on the front page once the current content got sufficiently old.
(To clarify: I am merely answering your question, not expressing an opinion.)
I suspect going through a page of 1-point stories is a more valuable contribution than going through several pages of 2+-point stories.