Ask YC - Feature request Ask YC questions in their own queue

4 points·DarrenStuart··7 comments

Can we have a separate page for the ASK YC stuff?

The reason is I think it will make for better discussions and keep them out of the news queue because they are not news. I still think they should have karma etc.

Maybe have a checkbox on the form to flag post as question/discussion.

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It'd be nice if anything that begins with the word 'ask' was treated this way. There are a lot of 'Ask PG' and 'Ask so-and-so' threads floating around.

I'd rather they were still included in the other stories, but it'd be nice if you could also view them on their own too. Usually the best discussions of some technical topic happen in these threads.

maybe 3 pages Normal(as it is now) Ask YC News I think the new should just have em both.

Personally, I like the mix. And there's not always a solid difference between the "news" items and the AskYC, anyway. If I'd be interested in clicking on some guy's post about Ruby vs. Python, I'd be just as interested in clicking on an AskYC post on the same topic.

Great idea - sometimes I'm in the mood for good discussions and feedback, sometimes I just want the news.

http://searchyc.com/askyc - This will help you find some really great discussions when you're in the mood.

There should definitely be a page for feature requests. I'm not crazy about the current thread that aggregates the requests. That page is too big, and there is no filtering out for features that have either been built or rejected (unless I am wrong).

Perhaps separate queues for items without title links. I find these much more interesting.

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