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I actually disagree. A high upvote to comment ratio is usually indicative of a great link.
by qeorge 17y ago
I 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.