It's because Delicious is something people use to save things, and anything in the form of a list is something that seems like it ought to be kept. You can make any essay seem like a reference work by recasting it as a numbered list.
Delicious/popular was better before writers started intentionally gaming it by doing that sort of thing.
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Can you just add something that kills all headlines that have an initial number+adjective?
I'd really hate for HN to become http://delicious.com/popular.
It's really amazing (though I guess it shouldn't be surprising) that the saturation there is approaching 100%.
It's because Delicious is something people use to save things, and anything in the form of a list is something that seems like it ought to be kept. You can make any essay seem like a reference work by recasting it as a numbered list.
Delicious/popular was better before writers started intentionally gaming it by doing that sort of thing.