Comment by SirFatty
5 months ago
"..lets you subscribe only to posts above a certain number of points.."
You prefer to let other people determine what you read?
5 months ago
"..lets you subscribe only to posts above a certain number of points.."
You prefer to let other people determine what you read?
>You prefer to let other people determine what you read?
There are multiple levels of delegation to the "wisdom of the crowd":
- visiting this HN website by itself is already letting people determine what you read. The stories are submitted by others.
- reading only the front page of just the top-voted 30 stories instead of doom scrolling the additional 1000 is another level of delegation
- inside of each story, only reading a subset of the most upvoted comments is another level
People do all 3 to various degrees because there's limited time to read.
> People do all 3 to various degrees because there's limited time to read.
_By far_, the best posts I have ever seen to this website were often ones that didn't get many comments, or may have even gotten reported.
Considering you define the heuristic seems like a daft argument for you to make
Unfortunately I don't have time to personally vet literally every single piece of writing being produced by all of humanity every day.
I prefer to also hear other people’s opinion about an article as a sort of a peer review.