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This happens a lot on hackernews, and frankly it's really annoying. People post a link to some random thing like this, and it gets upvoted because people don't
by blaisio 7y ago
This happens a lot on hackernews, and frankly it's really annoying. People post a link to some random thing like this, and it gets upvoted because people don't click on the link, they just are excited about the title. A lot of times, the title doesn't even mean anything. Hackernews != Twitter.
</grumpy> I'm going to get some more coffee.
- _bxg1 7y agoI mean, it sounds like it means something, it's just hard to understand without some context.
- tosh 7y agohn is one of the few places on the web with a community that notices changes like these and that can contextualize them just-in-time.
- cpeterso 7y agoHN could reduce (but not prevent) upvoting of unread articles by removing the upvote button from the HN home page (so you can only vote after having opened the HN thread page and seen some comments) and/or requiring the user to click the article link before the upvote button appears (so the user might have read the article before voting).
- ndesaulniers 7y agoI'm just here for the sweet fake internet points. Let me know if you find out where I can redeem them...
- crispinb 7y agoI've always taken it for granted that the voting system is essentially meaningless, especially for comments, so don't generally use it (I'll downvote egregiously rude or idiotic comments, but that's it).