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The flagging solution does not necessarily work for a biased readership. Valid comments that go against the echo chamber will be flagged more often than those
by sbov 10y ago
The flagging solution does not necessarily work for a biased readership. Valid comments that go against the echo chamber will be flagged more often than those that don't, and will rise to the top. This will bury inappropriate comments that go along with the echo chamber to the bottom.
- danso 10y agoIt could act like the downvote on YouTube, in which something registers but the actual tally is not visible to the public. It'd take some tweaking depending on the actual dynamics of how NYT readers interact. Maybe have a threshold of 3 to 5? And perhaps have a hidden karma score that drops (like in StackOverflow) with each downvote, so that chronic flaggers have diminishing influence