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The comment scores need to be hidden for comments you didn't write People keep saying this, but it would severely limit the utility of the site. When I chance
by dionidium 16y ago
The comment scores need to be hidden for comments you didn't write
People keep saying this, but it would severely limit the utility of the site. When I chance upon a post with more than ~50 comments, I only want to read the 6-7 or so that the community has agreed are best. I perceive a positive correlation between comment scores and quality. That is, the odds that a post with 50 points contains good content do empirically seem to be higher than for posts with 2 points.
In short: I need a comment filter that is more strict than than simply "appears on Hacker News". I don't want to read every single one.
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- tptacek 16y agoComments are sorted based in part on votes. That's fine. The system we have now isn't picking out the best comments; it's picking out my comments.
- gjm11 16y agoThere's a difference?
- alexophile 16y agoI like using votes to determine whether or not it's worth devling into a deep thread. If there's a conversation that goes 5 levels deep, you can just scan the bottom layers - if they're getting votes, then it's likely to be a worthwhile conversation. Similarly, if there's a bunch of responses with a score of 1 with replies forking off all over the place, having a visible score lets you catch that at-a-glance and avoid bothering with a conversation that is clearly digressing.