alt Hacker NewsFeature request - filter out common, low-effort posts (e.g. "coffee"). It should be easy to spot these from the data, and thus easy to automate the filtering.
There could be another place for these common posts on the site somewhere (might be interesting to surface how many people are happy about "coffee" vs "tea" for example), but on the bird view they just end up being a disappointing click.
I agree. The longer ones are the best part, and jumping over one word birds takes something away.
I’m thinking about a switch for the reader, off by default, something like “longer birds only”.
What I can’t decide is how it should choose. Counting words is simple but dumb. A model could judge if a bird says something, but that’s a quiet judgment on people’s words. Or the birds people feed more could show up more often. Thoughts?