Hot and top are broken, recent is the way to go. That’s what I’ve been doing ever since I joined SN.

0xbitcoiner

> the prime attention allocator 

I had been thinking about this mostly as a problem of how zaps and downzaps work, but it is interesting to wonder about solutions that give stackers different ways to decide how to allocate their attention.

Scoresby

`master` branch has a `-inf` filter minimum. I'll deploy it tomorrow

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k00b

This really is a microcosm of the attention economy.  This wouldn't matter so much if 

 wasn't basically the prime attention allocator.

, downzapped posts are still effectively invisible to me due to my inability to maintain perfect attention.  I'd have to catch them on 

 about the time they're posted.  (My other option is to find a comment worth clicking on when I do 

Stacker Saloon

saloon

This really is a microcosm of the attention economy.  This wouldn't matter so much if `Hot` wasn't basically the prime attention allocator. 

Even if I set my visibility filter to `-1,000`, downzapped posts are still effectively invisible to me due to my inability to maintain perfect attention.  I'd have to catch them on `Recent` about the time they're posted.  (My other option is to find a comment worth clicking on when I do `Recent -> Comments` which then helps me find the post.)