This was originally announced[0] with the title HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old
So is there a reason to think now that the cutoff date is Feb 13, 2008, or could it be dynamically counting accounts over a year old?
So is there a reason to think now that the cutoff date is Feb 13, 2008, or could it be dynamically counting accounts over a year old?
So why bother tuning it to be even more similar?
Old accounts don't use classic, they use the normal HN homepage like everybody else. Which means, they see the same top links as everybody else, and upvote them, like everybody else.
In other words, /classic is remarkably useless. It might have been useful when it was created (11 years ago!), if a sizeable part of those old accounts would use /classic, and only /classic.
You're surprised that the general tech population is remarkably similar to the elite tech population? :-p
Nowadays, HN is more of a general tech aggregator, but discussions where some users lament the turning away from exclusively startup content still happen every now and then.
(Personally I'm happy with how it went. Startup stuff bores me.)
Damn, March 31 2008 account here. Juts over a month too late :)