

Top domains on HN by average score (warning: check comments first) - andreyf
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rC4oeGjG_04iG63oBJvy2xw&output=html

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teej
If you would rather not have your Google account revealed to all of HN, log
out of Google before following the link.

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mjgoins
Can someone explain why? I assume the link got changed a long time ago by now.

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gojomo
At first, when you viewed the spreadsheet, you saw a richer interface that:

(1) popped a little message when others started viewing, with their logged-in
Google username

(2) offered an expandable chat sidebar

(3) showed each others' active selection-area via different selection colors
(correlated with colors in the char sidebar)

The warning was fair but it was actually kind of interesting. I think the best
case mixing fairness-of-disclosure and options-to-viewers would be a link to
the static doc, but another link on the static doc allowing upgrade to the
interactive interface (perhaps with a hint of what you'll see and reveal if
doing so).

Dug up from my browser history, this was the original link, which reveals your
logged-in Google username to other simultaneous document viewers:

!!!
[http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rC4oeGjG_04iG63oBJvy2...](http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rC4oeGjG_04iG63oBJvy2xw)

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smokinn
I don't know who I was following around but it was fun just clicking under
your cell selection =)

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gojomo
Sites based on the real name of their primary writer are very strong: graham,
sivers, yegge, shaw, buchheit, maroon, joel, aaron, pmarca, ejohn, godin. (A
message about authenticity, voice, and personal brands?)

Other sites known as the outlet of a single author also do well: catonmat,
daringfireball, raganwald, blogmaverick, avc.

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skolor
While I have no evidence to support this, I would guess this has to do with
the editing process. Comparing this list to <http://top.searchyc.com/domains>,
you see a lot of similar results. The difference is that some of them have
quite a lot of results (Techcrunch, Wired), but not nearly as high of a
average score.

In fact, it looks like the sites hitting the top of the list for average score
are ones that are written by a single author, who has several strong opinions
(ZedShaw is a good example). Since Hacker News doesn't allow down voting, it
seems that by draw up a commotion, and getting people interested in a semi-
controversial idea is what wins votes here.

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gibsonf1
For better reading: (remove-duplicates Top_news.YC_submissions :key #'first
:test #'string=)

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socratees
From the charts I see TechCrunch.com is the domain with highest number of
posts and points as well.

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noodle
make it public?

edit: cool, it got made public.

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yangyang
Has anyone done something like this, but grouping by (user, domain), and maybe
ordering on something like (number of user submissions / number of user
submissions for this domain)?

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AndrewWarner
What do you guys make of this list? Love to hear your analysis.

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fludlight
I'd like to blacklist about half of these domains. Some people might find
Techcrunch, *.blogspot.com, AppleInsider, et al worthwhile, but I just don't
care for them.

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quizbiz
blacklisting *.blogspot.com would really be pushing it.

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ptomato
Indeed. Steve Yegge? Paul Buchheit? not to mention any of google's blogs.

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wglb
There seems to be some duplication further down in the list--rows fully
identical are repeated.

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mattmaroon
Holy crap, 95 of my articles have been submitted here? I would not have
guessed that.

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AndrewWarner
What's the time frame on this?

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andreyf
Got the data from here: <http://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_points>

So I think the entire history of the site is included.

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epi0Bauqu
What are the differences between this and the searchyc page?

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vaksel
seems to be a lot of duplicates on that list

