Second-Chance Pool
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Second-Chance Pool
HN's second-chance pool is a way to give links a second chance at the front page.
news.ycombinator.comHow HN took it
19 positive, 30 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 55 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Idea: 6 for, 5 againstDesign: 3 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Gives overlooked good stories a second chance.
From 3 comments
Many of those stories seem familiar, because they ended up getting lots of votes on their second run. I guess the team of reviewers have good taste! How much of "page one", ie.…
morsch on HNThis is awesome! Twice dang has emailed me to give items I submitted a second chance. I am constantly pleasantly surprised by the care and attention he pays to making this site…
imgabe on HNFor any RSS heads out there, /invited is available via hnrss.org: https://hnrss.org/invited I'll try to add /pool to hnrss.org this weekend, too, if time allows.
edavis on HN
Human curation works better than random mixing.
From 1 comment
We tried randomly mixing in new stories onto the front page - it was a disaster. The median new submission is pretty crappy, and readers reacted with "how the #@!? did this make…
dang on HN
Objections
Naming is unintuitive.
From 1 comment
Can you name it something better it is extremely unintuitive
neximo64 on HN
Re-upped duplicates feel unfair to original submitters.
From 2 comments
This is equivalent to paying more to move one's ebay listing up the page, except instead of money, it's sweat equity of dashing off a separate email. I shall automate an email…
jimmyvalmer on HNI got a complaint! I posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26987061 and a few hour later this other one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26990957 that was posted…
marcodiego on HN
Repeat submissions of old stories are annoying.
From 1 comment
hmm. Have noticed a lot more repeat submissions that didn't get that much attention first time around getting a ton of more upvotes lately. A comment on the nature of the…
ChrisArchitect on HN
Requests
Rename the pool feature.
From 2 comments
Can you name it something better it is extremely unintuitive
neximo64 on HNbucket
cybertoad on HN
Add pool to the top bar or menu.
From 3 comments
Is the only way to access it for now to bookmark pool? It’d be nice if it was in a menu somewhere :)
raunak on HNAdd pool to the top bar?
ggm on HNIs this going to be pinned to the front page? Or added as a menu at the top? Adding as a menu at the top will mostly ignored by all except by a select few. Having it pinned to…
yalogin on HN
Automatically add submissions from high-hit-rate technical blogs.
From 1 comment
My suggestion would be to automatically add submissions of unique posts to the second chance pool or have a reviewer look at them when they're for a domain or user with a high…
trishume on HN
Questions
How do stories move from submitted to the pool?
From 1 comment
Is there any information about how a story transitions from "submitted" to "pool"? I assume it's a manual decision, not strictly algorithmic. (Though it probably contains…
sillysaurusx on HN
Why are duplicates of front-page stories shown in the pool?
From 1 comment
1 - i see that "pool" shows up in the nav when we go to there, but why not let it show up by default on the home page? that way it would be more discoverable. or is that the…
swyx on HN
Alternatives named
Personalized feed of upvoted users' posts.
From 1 comment
I'd really like to see a personalized feed next to "new" and "top" feeds. Personalized in a sense that if I've upvoted Joe and Joe upvoted a post about foobar, I want that foobar…
akomtu on HN
Lobste.rs and r/programming.
From 1 comment
My suggestion would be to automatically add submissions of unique posts to the second chance pool or have a reviewer look at them when they're for a domain or user with a high…
trishume on HN