Comment by add-sub-mul-div

3 hours ago

We could stop thinking of them as walled gardens we're trying to get into and start thinking of them as quarantines for the Eternal September population.

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delichon  3 hours ago

> quarantines for the Eternal September population

Hacker News actually has a way to do this quarantine, a version that only counts votes from accounts created before 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic. About a decade after Eternal September started, but not bad.

  • bananaflag  40 minutes ago

    Wow that's very interesting but it only works for the front page (and also only changes the order not the numbers), not for each comment page.

    Maybe we should have a setting "count only votes before date yyyy-mm-dd" but this would probably make the site too dynamic (?) and consume a lot of resources.

  • defrost  3 hours ago

    FWiW as an aside, it appears to count votes from December 2008 accounts (as just tested using this 2008-12-26 account).

    So that's at least strictly before 2009.