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Hi Carl. Thanks for the post. These are some interesting ideas and I'll mark them down as possible features. The configurable feed based on how many votes probably isn't that hard :)

Cool idea would be to ignore people, like that .net guy that puts 20+ links a day (i bet he even dont bother to read them or maybe hes a bot?)

@raveman: Thats's perfectly compatible to my suggestion. You could put this .NET guy on your "foe" list and that would rank down all links he posts or even make them invisible.

You certainly shouldn't automatically vote down his articles without glancing them over first. His M$ posts are annoying, but he keeps sites like this going. And I am sure there are one or to drones that read his stories.

We don't need crappy content to keep this site going.

I didn't mean to suggest voting down articles publically. Currently things are going really great here, but I can see the number of links picking up exponentially and I only have time for the best ones I am interested in.

Robot ratings are bad. After all there is only one chance in the system to post one link (which is really great). If the wrong guy accidentally posted the right link, then this link would be "bad". Doesn't work.

What I tried to suggest in my posting is to be able to have your own RSS feed with rules like the following:
"If bloid votes for this link, it's a good one, I want to have this show up in my feed"
"I know xxx always votes against all cool concurrency stuff, so I want to have his down votes in my feed"
"Usually links that get more than 3 down votes are not top notch. I want these removed"
"I only want links with more than 10 positive votes showing up"
"Don't show me links that are tagged Flash"
"Show me all links about Scala and Erlang"

The possibility to combine the social part an the theme part in a single RSS feed would be huge.
...but it could impose quite a bit of load on the database behind this system...

I wouldn't expect my query feed to be up-to-date at all times. Once a day would be good enough.

I think auto voting is a bad idea, people can just setup zombies to manipulate popularity. An ignore list would be nice, I have a few people on here that I would love to filter out from my screen, others might feel differently.

so i missunderstood, sorry :)

To reduce the number of spam links, you should make people wait a certain number of days after registering before they're allowed to post links. Or perhaps make every user account's first posting go into a moderation queue where it have to be approved before being visible on the New Links page.

I'd like to see more flexible tags, instead of the hard coded list that is currently in use.

I agree. I think there should be separate tags for Flex and AIR, rather than lumping them in with the Flash tag.

Personally myself I would like to see page anchor support that immediately takes users back to the last link they clicked on when they left the page. For instance, when I hit back from this page I would go back to the very top of the home page instead of at the last link I clicked. This anchor info could be stored in a request object as the user navigated the site. Here's a link to a rundown of how this stuff works to make things simple:
http://www.hypergurl.com/anchors.html

This is only neccessary because of all the links being one giant gob on the home page. Couldn't they be broken down by category? Like say,.'Net' for folks like me and 'Java' for the open source types.
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