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Comment by xtho | Hacker News Reader

But isn't that the point of a social news website that the community (whose members should of course have similar preferences as you have) does the filtering for you by upvoting interesting articles. Otherwise I could run such a filter over a collections of rss feed aggregators, couldn't I? By using a social news website, users IMHO implicitely claim that community-based filtering works better than any algorithm could, don't they?

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Perhaps you miss my point. I said:

  > ... the items I'm most interested in never
  > really get the upvotes to pass the thresholds,

I've found dozens of items that I'm interested in and which never got more than one or two upvotes. They never made it to the front page. Often they've been resubmitted, the timing has been right, or the title has been changed, and suddenly it's got tens, on some cases hundred of upvotes.

There are many, many items that slip through, unnoticed, unloved, that should get upvotes, but due to poor timing or poor titles don't.

I want a system that helps me catch them.

I hit the new once or twice a day, but sometimes it s just too much.

Plus I don't feel that welcomed when the only enhancements to the site I see are taking away permissions (I'm at 460 karma. I can't downvote anymore)

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