Looking at the front page today, there's only about one in ten. The other nine you can find on Reddit pretty quick.
Would it be possible to have some kind of category system or way of tagging/filtering stories to hone in on the relevant ones?
Thanks!
An interesting idea would be to add a mechanism to overemphasize/under emphasize posts based on keywords or tags, a multiplier you can set for the current points/rank of the post.
PG: I vote that we go back to ycombinator news and drop the hacker stuff. I would rather just focus on startup/business stuff. That's the reason I joined your news site in the first place.
Great to see you here. I'm working on a "all startups, all the time" social news site as an extension to OnStartups.com
Stay tuned...
If someone here would like to be the community manager for the new site, drop me a line (I'd even be willing to pay a modest amount, in terms of compensating for your time).
So you can upvote as an interesting 'hacker' story or for start-up-ness?
Not sure if this would be practical for more than a few categories.
But I guess you aimed at something different anyway.
There is also one more problem that I'd think could be addressed: language. I'd like to see a website where the user could have links in any language that s/he can speak or read. When reddit was still interesting, half of its user base was non-american. I bet that more interesting people would hang around in reddit if they could also send links in other languages.
So, with that in mind, I started working on a side-project, and it is precisely what inovica is describing: a social news website that could use Bayesian filtering to score links for each user. Check it in http://news.communick.com. For lack of a better name, I'm calling it SmartNewz.
I just started, and it is only a side-project. The site, as it is, was done in a weekend. I hope I can also use this as a means to learn how to develop applications for facebook and OpenSocial. But those are only ideas.
The part that I believe is interesting is open sourcing the filter, as well as providing an API for those that want to implement their own filters.
So, if anyone is interested in such a service (or if you indirectly want to help disqus have more users), please, register at the website, check the filter project repository at http://code.google.com/p/smartnewz, or the trac wiki for more information, in http://trac.communick.com/news.