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Does anyone else think the ranking algorithm should put additional weight to comments than it currently does? Increasingly I see stories with a lot of upvotes
by zaidf 17y ago
Does anyone else think the ranking algorithm should put additional weight to comments than it currently does?
Increasingly I see stories with a lot of upvotes and few to no comments. Big downer for me--I tend to get as much if not more from the discussions than the story itself. If a story isn't provoking discussion(relative to the upvotes), that should be a notch against it.
- qeorge 17y agoI actually disagree. A high upvote to comment ratio is usually indicative of a great link.
- zaidf 17y agoFair enough, I'm in the clear minority:)
- warp 17y agoI too prefer to read those articles with many comments. (I usually read comments first, and then decide based on that if I should bother reading the article). However, I do not think the ranking needs to change, the number of comments is clearly visible on the home page, it's easy to just skip those links with little or no comments.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoIt's indicative of a link that answers a question, not one that asks it. So what you should weigh is controversy / (votes / comments). A high-vote, low-comment article about abortion has clearly resolved the issue; a low-vote, high-comment issue about creationism has probably just asked stupid questions in a provocative way.
- randallsquared 17y agoA high-vote, low-comment article about abortion has clearly resolved the issue Well, perhaps that's a bit optimistic on that topic... :)
- pyre 17y agoWhat about the links where the information is basically just an announcement (see the links related to Google's public DNS servers) and a ton of discussion is then generated here over 'what this means', etc?
- silentbicycle 17y agoIt depends on timing, too - there have been several times where an interesting and fairly substantial link was posted, and discussion seemed to hold off for half and hour or so because people were actually reading it.
- camccann 17y agoOddly, I tend to get the opposite impression: If a lot of people voted a story up, yet few people felt the need to add something, complain about it, ask questions, &c., it suggests that it's something both very interesting and high quality. Conversely, few upvotes and lots of comments seems like a warning sign about the article.