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I've noticed that my comments have been typically getting less points than they used to. What I've noticed is that when I don't get as much positive reinforcem
by iamelgringo 17y ago
I've noticed that my comments have been typically getting less points than they used to. What I've noticed is that when I don't get as much positive reinforcement (points) as I used to, I'm less inclined to take 30 minutes and writing and editing a thoughtful comment. It's a downward cycle.
- akkartik 17y agoSame here. The problem is not more upvotes, but upvotes spread out over a larger set of comments. Perhaps we need a study of comments in the different percentiles now vs a year ago vs 2 years ago. Filter out comments that don't tell you something new. How does the remainder look?
- robryan 17y agoThis may be because there are more comments on each submission so your comment may be glanced over instead of being read properly like it would be if there were only a few comments on something. The comment system is usually very good but for things like the Google/China post it is very hard to come back a few hours later and see what's new because of how things are ordered, I'm sure there would have been a lot of valid points in that thread which didn't get upvotes.
- Perceval 17y agoOne of the great features of Scoop code (which runs kuro5hin and DailyKos among others) is that it can show you what comments are new since the last time you viewed a store, marking them with a red-colored '[new].' Makes coming back to an active thread much easier.
- robryan 17y agoI'd say that would be one feature useful here, I don't think it would over complicate the simplicity of things. Maybe it could be factored into the display order so things that are new since you last looked at a submission move to the top.