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Comment by jacquesm | Hacker News Reader

Isn't there a 'Rust announcements' mailing list instead of having HN polluted with every minor point release?

I'm a Rust fan, and I'd say that Rust announcements are so often upvoted because they contain interesting developments, but in this case it looks as though this patch release only contains minor bugfixes. When I saw it pop up on HN's front page I sort of thought we were going to get something juicy like a security advisory... the only interesting news here is apparently that the Rust developers also issue patch releases for relatively mundane reasons. :P

Rust is a major development in the world of systems programming and as such it definitely deserves its share of attention. But point releases are best kept to the in-crowd and major releases are the moment to make large public announcements.

If it wasn't upvoted it wouldn't make it to the front page.

Just about anything with 'Rust' in the title makes it to the front page.

Note that HN's ranking algorithm also rapidly sinks things off the front page whose titles contain common keywords like "Rust", "Go", "Apple", etc.

That's an interesting observation, but not true!

As far as stories like this go, we do penalize minor release announcements across the board (unless there's something there that gratifies intellectual curiosity), but that's done manually.

Interesting, thanks for the insight. :)

The argument is flawed because the system doesn't ask for the majority's opinion. I consider minor releases just noise personally.

Yep. To put it simply: it would be quite different if every user had a downvote button available.

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