3 ms·
This is something (perhaps the only thing) I miss here which reddit has: /r/bestof. Comments, no matter how good, never end up on /news and so anyone who isn't
by cperciva 11y ago
This is something (perhaps the only thing) I miss here which reddit has: /r/bestof. Comments, no matter how good, never end up on /news and so anyone who isn't reading the rest of the discussion in question will never see them.
Come to think of it, is there any technical limitation on having comments submitted as stories? Maybe it's just a cultural issue (i.e., there is no culture of submitting comments as stories here).
- dang 11y agoThere's no technical limitation. In fact bugs have occasionally caused comments to appear on the front page. A genuine technical limitation is that poll options don't work like other items ('item' is what the code calls posts like stories, comments, and job ads), which caused some trouble last week.
- DanBC 11y agoWould /r/bestofHNcomments work as a subreddit?
- s-phi-nl 11y agoI trust you are aware of http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments ?
- cperciva 11y agoYes, but that's just the highest scores -- which is a very noisy measurement given that it depends on how many people read the threads in question.
- alister 11y agoIs it possible to implement features similar to the above without being a ycombinator insider? Since upvotes aren't visible on comments, other than comments you made yourself, how could you calculate it? (Are the upvotes on comments available through an API for example?)
- scott_s 11y agoI'm pretty sure that's happened. I even recall someone doing some recursion trick with it - which I just tried, but I can't edit the URL after submission. (Maybe you used to be able to?)