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Of the article isn't interesting, the article wouldn't have been voted up. Marking down the comments indicates a desire by some to to enforce groupthink. Why?
by jonathankoren 10y ago
Of the article isn't interesting, the article wouldn't have been voted up.
Marking down the comments indicates a desire by some to to enforce groupthink. Why? Because many people use votes to indicate agree-disagree instead of a quality metric.
- Karunamon 10y agoYou don't think agree/disagree votes apply to articles like they apply to comments? And given what I've seen of the algorithm here, page positioning is a lot more complicated than vote count weighted by time.
- jonathankoren 10y agoI think it's harder to agree/disagree with the typical headlines featured on HN. Most articles on HN appear to be straight. But let's say that two articles were in the queue, one pro-X, the other anti-X and the pro-X forces were dominant. Sure the pro-X article would hit the FP, but the anti-X forces would still comment on it and be down voted. Also the bias is only visible in the comment section because down voted comments remain visible, whereas a down voted article gets flushed down the memory hole.