Content Curation Debate

The cluster centers on discussions about the definition, value, and necessity of content curation, particularly human versus algorithmic or absent curation in news aggregators and platforms like Hacker News.

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Sample Comments

fenomas Sep 17, 2015 View on HN

"Curated" doesn't just mean "spam-filtered".

baby Sep 30, 2023 View on HN

what's the alternative, no curation? No thank you

rdlecler1 Jul 1, 2018 View on HN

There is value in curation but this doesn’t seem to be playing well with the HN crowd.

hiq Jan 10, 2022 View on HN

Without curation it's not worth much.

AtlasBarfed Aug 5, 2019 View on HN

It's not "curated"?

falloutx Jan 25, 2017 View on HN

Can you explain how does the curation process work. What are the sources? And how do you/(or you code) decide what is worth curating?

dlsym May 26, 2015 View on HN

Why are you not curating a curated list of curated curating-lists?

pdntspa Feb 11, 2023 View on HN

Stop relying on recommendations and figure out some humans that curate

adamsfallen Jun 25, 2012 View on HN

this is hot. question: what do you make of the various content curation platforms out there? are they worth it?

8organicbits Feb 21, 2023 View on HN

Wouldn't you want to curate? Maybe I'm missing the point too.