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Poll: Categories for YC News?

1 points by alexk ↗ HN
YC News contains articles that can be categorized as 'tech news', 'useful', '4 entrepreneur ', 'fun', etc. It can save ones time to know the content type before clicking the link. Just wanted to know whether idea is relevant enough to become a feature proposal.

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makecheck
I think the idea is to keep all posts relevant to this community. If in fact there are too many "fun" posts, the posters should be asking why they're putting it here (especially if it'll be on Reddit).
alexk
I agree, however the reality is that you can not change the state of things. If you have too much data, you need to filter the list.
volida
or filter the users
davidw
Faced with the choice of too many new users diluting the site (by upvoting junk), and too much bad content, I'd rather be accepting of new users, and very, very ironhanded with regards to acceptable content. If we allow any content and any users, new users who are more interested in [pics] and why McCain or Obama is a dork, and that kind of extraneous junk will eventually dominate the site.