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But due to sheer mass of readers at what point does 'me too' become irrelevant?

• wonderous 10y ago
  It doesn't, it appears be pointing out that simply receiving a comment would not be a measure of someone expressing that they are able to explain why they liked something in a way that's not simply repeating what's already been said.
  • deathhand 10y ago
    What would eventually happen though is that the comment quality will decline because people like to hear/see themselves communicate/talk. It's part of our ego from the human condition. I upvoted you - Reasoning being that you responded(something I like) - I also enjoy the run on sentence. It eventually becomes a circle-jerk. That is the problem with forcing replies. Voat is a good example of this.
    • wonderous 10y ago
      From another comment by me: "in case it's not clear, this would be a control for moderation, posting it as a comment for non-moderators to view would be optional." Voting as a signal to quality is as important if not more important than the comment quality. For example, HN as a vast amount of high-quality submission votes and related comments, but their still are a lot of spammy, off-topic, low-value, etc. submissions and comments. Key is to insure in any system that there's a cost to expression and that cost is relative to the value. Another related issue with voting is that users don't understand the intent of the interfaces use or misuse it to achieve an unrelated outcome. For example, some users on HN use flags as downvotes, but that is explicitly not what they're to be used for per the guidelines; those users happen to know the system and that the system weights flags in a way that's comparable to downvotes.