Are top stories biased towards the preferences of those who browse the new page?

by Gormisdomaion 8/7/2023, 10:43:48 PM with 4 comments
  • by compressedgason 8/7/2023, 11:21:55 PM

    No, I browse the new page because the top stories are mostly irrelevant to me.

  • by ubermanon 8/7/2023, 10:50:08 PM

    If the worth of new posts was not judged by users who view new posts, how else should they be judged?

  • by Gormisdomaion 8/7/2023, 10:45:30 PM

    I was browsing an old thread about this, and this comment from 2010 put it very well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076422 which is where I got the phrasing of the title from