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I'm relatively new here, but if I may offer a suggestion: I don't care much for the points on comments at all. Comments that float to the top regularly defend

I'm relatively new here, but if I may offer a suggestion: I don't care much for the points on comments at all. Comments that float to the top regularly defend commonplaces, and while they certainly deserve a positive vote, there's not much to learn from those. But interesting comments, that I gather new insights from, are often written by the same commenters (->commentators? my English is lacking). Thus, a system that would work well for me, would allow me to rate individuals, so that on the next thread it will show me my favourite commenters first. (edit: wow, suddenly lots of replies in this thread - maybe I forgot to refresh. I believe jefffoster's idea of Bayesian filtering may be more powerful than mine)

silentbicycle 17y ago
'Commenters'. Your English is fine, but could you please clarify what you mean by "defend commonplaces"? I'm guessing you mean "agree with / repeat common views on the site" as opposed to informed disagreement - sometimes called "groupthink".
- yungchin 17y ago
  Thanks, yes, I meant "repeat common views" - without necessarily meaning "groupthink" though. For me, groupthink implies uncritical thinking, whereas repeating (and repeatedly reading) common views is only inefficient. So I might down-vote examples of groupthink (if I had down-vote rights that is ;)), but I would just skip over common views without bothering to vote. edit: although in all likelihood, I wouldn't know groupthink if I saw it, being part of the group... :)