Oh, I do not think the problem would be that the users are unaware of upvoting. Surely, about everyone (some excluded because everything is not always valid for everyone) would notice there's a clickable triangle next to the story title (Especially since there's just one(!)) - and most users should be coming from, or have visited another "social news board" with similar features previously.
Sometimes you simply do not like a story, article, linkpassing nearly enough to actually be thinking: "Hey, this was so interesting, that I am going to tell a really good friend about it - so he/she could enjoy it aswell!".
You bet half of the regular Hacker News readership does not know the frontpage is powered by voting.
I bet most of the fellow users have fairly or very high standards. Especially since there's so much quality content.
Just my two minutes of thinking and other eight minutes of editorial process. Cheers fellow reader.
Sometimes you simply do not like a story, article, linkpassing nearly enough to actually be thinking: "Hey, this was so interesting, that I am going to tell a really good friend about it - so he/she could enjoy it aswell!".
You bet half of the regular Hacker News readership does not know the frontpage is powered by voting.
I bet most of the fellow users have fairly or very high standards. Especially since there's so much quality content.
Just my two minutes of thinking and other eight minutes of editorial process. Cheers fellow reader.