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218 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 15 Mar \ parent \ on: Hacker News Score, Comments and Rank as Time Series charts

I wonder if there's a way to augment it so that SN can benefit in particular? E.g., there's already (probably) a fruitful discussion on HN, so if you're going to comment in a general way, it makes sense to do so there, bc that's where the discussion is.

I think most stackers will simply comment here since they are more interested in what other stackers have to say than HN readers even though you are right, there might already be a discussion there and it would make sense to comment there for more engagement. But I am also not sure how many stackers use HN and how many of those are not simply lurking?

Is there a SN-specific type of discussion that could ensue? And how could that be encouraged?

Good question. I used to engage with as many replies to @hn as I could but now I mostly just scroll through the history of @hn and see if any post got an interesting comment that was not from @hn. But I only reply if I feel like it unlike before where I felt like every post from @hn is basically a post from me and I have a "fiduciary duty" to reply if someone spend their time to reply to @hn.

However, there are discussions in @hn posts that arise organically so I think it's simply a matter of what @hn posts? So it could be encouraged by tweaking the algorithm of @hn?

But maybe @hn could also fetch the top comment on HN and post that here, too. Kind of like seeding the discussion. I almost always go to HN to read the comments.