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Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight

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615 points __rito__ | 1 comments | 10 Dec 25 17:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Related from yesterday: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
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modeless ◴[10 Dec 25 19:17 UTC] No.46222213[source]▶
This is a cool idea. I would install a Chrome extension that shows a score by every username on this site grading how well their expressed opinions match what subsequently happened in reality, or the accuracy of any specific predictions they've made. Some people's opinions are closer to reality than others and it's not always correlated with upvotes.

An extension of this would be to grade people on the accuracy of the comments they upvote, and use that to weight their upvotes more in ranking. I would love to read a version of HN where the only upvotes that matter are from people who agree with opinions that turn out to be correct. Of course, only HN could implement this since upvotes are private.

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1. potato3732842 ◴[11 Dec 25 01:27 UTC] No.46226548[source]▶
>This is a cool idea. I would install a Chrome extension that shows a score by every username on this site grading how well their expressed opinions match what subsequently happened in reality, or the accuracy of any specific predictions they've made.

Why stop there?

If you can do that you can score them on all sorts of things. You could make a "this person has no moral convictions and says whatever makes the number go up" score. Or some other kind of score.

Stuff like this makes the community "smaller" in a way. Like back in the old days on forums and IRC you knew who the jerks were.