| ▲ | delichon 2 hours ago | |
> quarantines for the Eternal September population Hacker News actually has a way to do this quarantine, a version that only counts votes from accounts created before 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic. About a decade after Eternal September started, but not bad. | ||
| ▲ | bananaflag 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Wow that's very interesting but it only works for the front page (and also only changes the order not the numbers), not for each comment page. Maybe we should have a setting "count only votes before date yyyy-mm-dd" but this would probably make the site too dynamic (?) and consume a lot of resources. | ||
| ▲ | defrost 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
FWiW as an aside, it appears to count votes from December 2008 accounts (as just tested using this 2008-12-26 account). So that's at least strictly before 2009. | ||
| ▲ | randallsquared 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Decade and a half, really. Eternal September was 1993 or 1994, right? | ||