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The comment flags is a great idea - there's a good chance that it would cut down on "why am I being downvoted" types of posts, which would in turn reduce noise.
by swombat 17y ago
The comment flags is a great idea - there's a good chance that it would cut down on "why am I being downvoted" types of posts, which would in turn reduce noise.
Are you thinking of adding more flags to stories too?
- pg 17y agoI should probably add a way to flag a story specifically as a dupe, and maybe also for having had the title reworded too egregiously. Those are common problems people currently have to use comments for now. Can anyone think of others?
- thorax 17y agoI pretty much only flag posts for: dupe terrible-title spam-site not-even-arguably-hacker-related
- brk 17y agoAlong the same lines, I'd like to see a throttle that limits how many stories a user can submit from the same domain. There are a handful of users that seem to only submit from 1 or 2 sites that (I presume) they are affiliated with. This is just more noise that makes skimming the /new page and promoting good stories less efficient than it could be. Regarding titles... What about a title/subtitle option? Keep whatever title the actual article has, and a slightly smaller subtitle where the submitter can editorialize.
- dhimes 17y agoI dunno. I tend to submit from the same domains simply because there aren't very many submitting from those domains, and the can have interesting articles. On the other hand, I don't submit very often, so maybe some sort of statistical time check would work.
- russell 17y agoI flag occasionally for spam or off-topic HN-wise. I have been tempted for those that hijack other stories without much of anything in the way of commentary, but HN'ers tend to quickly post a link to the original.
- rms 17y agoFlag as meta? A lot of people don't care for the meta-discussion.
- decklin 17y agoI would really like to see this. I'm inclined say it shouldn't have any relation to karma or killing, because there's nothing inherently wrong with meta-discussion, but the front page would be infinitely more pleasant to me if I could see "100 comments (90 meta)", instead of guessing if there were really 100 things to say about the article or if after the only 10 someone just hit a nerve with a downvote or a pointless "this isn't HN" snark and started something big and ugly. I'd go so far as including a "meta" checkbox next to the reply button, defaulting to the parent's value, which it would be considered polite to set truthfully, but maybe that's just me.
- jmatt 17y agoI agree comments are a great idea. But I don't think all comments are necessarily negative. I can think of times where I wanted to comment directly to the poster privately. So maybe there is an even more generalized solution for providing feedback/responses. Flags are a good idea too. The HN feature set is still minimal and polished compared to other similar sites. So the community is really sensitive to any changes. From seeing previous feature experiments I think the only way to really see if it works is to implement it and get feedback. I remember some previous features that seemed like they would be great(!) when they were written up and first implemented. Then after a few hours or days were frustrating. Like the orange vs greys karma change.