Looking at right now, the multi-year posts are grey links, while the month-scale posts are black links (that I saw and made the deliberate decision not to read at the time).
Seems you’re unlucky getting the greyed-out ones. We put in effort to ensure most people don’t get content they’ve read, and have mostly succeeded:
(full read means you scrolled all the way to the comments)
That said, when I reran the numbers after a more recent algorithm change, we saw a much higher clickthrough-rate on clicked-but-not-scrolled-to-comments posts than any other (~10% vs ~4%), so I expect we’ll experiment with reintroducing some greyed-out ones for people.
Regrettably, it’s harder still to avoid recommending posts that you saw and intentionally didn’t click. As Robert said, I don’t think we’ll get rid of the ability to just use Latest.
Looking at right now, the multi-year posts are grey links, while the month-scale posts are black links (that I saw and made the deliberate decision not to read at the time).
Cheers!
Seems you’re unlucky getting the greyed-out ones. We put in effort to ensure most people don’t get content they’ve read, and have mostly succeeded:
(full read means you scrolled all the way to the comments)
That said, when I reran the numbers after a more recent algorithm change, we saw a much higher clickthrough-rate on clicked-but-not-scrolled-to-comments posts than any other (~10% vs ~4%), so I expect we’ll experiment with reintroducing some greyed-out ones for people.
Regrettably, it’s harder still to avoid recommending posts that you saw and intentionally didn’t click. As Robert said, I don’t think we’ll get rid of the ability to just use Latest.
I would love to have a checkbox or something next to each post to indicate “I saw this and I don’t want to click on it”
Yeah, I think we should do something like this. Maybe the box is “don’t show me posts like this”
Although it would also be nice to distinguish that from “I read this post already somewhere else”