User: whipslash

Re:Aim to not be Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Overfl

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Cool thanks for the feedback. Yeah the idea of posting very popular stories from the firehose to the front page would keep the content flowing, but also let people comment on the submission as a story (instead of having to find the URL on the submission and comment). We'd make these look different (by color code or some other means), and also have the option to hide these of course. We'd make sure to cap the the popular firehose stories that got posted to the front page to a certain amount in a given time period or day, ie. you wouldn't see 10 get posted in the same hour or small window of time.

Your other gripes have been noted as well.

Re: Mobile

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Thanks for all of this

Re:The moderationg system needs an overhaul.

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Can you give me some examples or elaborate on who/what this APK spammer is?

Re:There's no doubt that...

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Your wait will be over soon

Re:Not enough content

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Thanks for the feedback

Firehose stories on front page

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Would anyone be interested in the option to see the most popular stories from the firehose on the front page? They'd have to hit a very high popularity threshold and also would be marked/color-coded as such.

Re:There's no doubt that...

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oooo good ideas

Re:Not to mention the Wu Tang Clan...

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Yes that won't happen again

Re:Rate of new material

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What if we showed articles automatically on the front page that had already reached a certain threshold of popularity in the firehose? Not all the articles on the front page would be like this, but just a certain percentage, and they would be color coded so people know they are firehose popular articles.

Re:Fix the mobile site

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Copy pasted these suggestions verbatim onto our mobile priorities list.

Re:A pony

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Ponies aren't coming until next year

Re:Way to browse top comments across all stories

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Yes good call

Re:Open Source

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Yes this is something we're looking at.

Re:Mobile

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Mobile will be addressed ASAP. The suggestions here will not fall on deaf ears.

Re:Redirect users to Goatse.

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nice play on words

Re:Manual choice to Post or Moderate

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good idea

Re:Can we get an explanation on who gets mod point

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Yes we need to be more transparent about this

Re:three suggestions

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Good call here

Re:Read the .sigs

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Lol. So true

Re:Privileges, titles, reputation

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These are good ideas

Re:Polls on the sidebar

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Good idea. Well we're listening that's for sure

Re:How about a search function that works?

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You are damn right my friend. This is up near the top of our list.

Re:Stop dropping deep comments

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I noticed this. Great point. Put it on the list.

Re:First fix

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Ok. Done.

Re:you need better stories

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1. Nerval Lobster is gone, because DICE is gone. In terms of the front page, what if we showed some stories by default that had reached a certain level of popularity in the firehose?