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I don't see the point of explaining your mods. I think modding comments is of dubious value by itself. Private messaging might be helpful, but I don't see an u
by mdemare 19y ago
I don't see the point of explaining your mods. I think modding comments is of dubious value by itself.
Private messaging might be helpful, but I don't see an urgent problem to be solved.
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- yters 19y agoYeah, I see your point. pg probably uses a better weighting for submissions, and there usually aren't too many responses to read through. I do see this weighting scheme being useful for the best comments list, or a meta list weighted entirely this way.
- yters 19y agoAnd I do still think an explanation for modding has merit. I know, it seems insecure to want an explanation for people's reactions. We macho geniuses are supposed to know it all and have perfect control of the room (especially if pg is around)...or at least we need to give that impression; and what better way to learn how than to get private feedback on hacker news? Also, why are people modding the grandparent up?
- mdemare 19y agoBecause people agree with me. And that's why modding is so useless. What you want is new insights being modded up - what you get is people being modded up for expressing well what everyone else is thinking, and modded down for dissenting. I wish I could say that karma left me cold, but it doesn't - if somebody mods me down I feel insulted, if somebody mods me up it feels like praise. To get on YC-topic, there's room for innovation here...
- yters 19y agoAlong those lines, what do you think of a wikiable application for forums such as hacker news? http://arclanguage.org/item?id=1884 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=1884 I think it would be pretty neat for the community here. This would create a small feedback loop for ideas such as yours, and you don't have to bootstrap a new community to test new schemes.