This is compounded by the speed by which new articles scroll by in the "New" view. Right now the oldest New article on page #1 is 58 minutes. This means that I can't honestly upvote more than, say, 2 articles out of that list (since I wouldn't have time to read them).
It seems like the mechanism that puts new articles in front of people is at least part of the problem. Since they go by so quickly these days, maybe different sets of readers could get different "samples" of the New list, allowing those items to be around longer (but seen by fewer people). Since the HN readership is growing, I think it might be fair to rely on the statistical sampling this would provide.
It seems like the mechanism that puts new articles in front of people is at least part of the problem. Since they go by so quickly these days, maybe different sets of readers could get different "samples" of the New list, allowing those items to be around longer (but seen by fewer people). Since the HN readership is growing, I think it might be fair to rely on the statistical sampling this would provide.