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I'd think for a system to scale you need good comment ranking like reddit has. Not sure if hn is strictly "top" votes or like reddits "best" which takes in to a
by anotheryou 6y ago
I'd think for a system to scale you need good comment ranking like reddit has. Not sure if hn is strictly "top" votes or like reddits "best" which takes in to account that younger comments have been seen less and comments with few votes need the benefit of doubt and a boost to get "reviewed".
That should be able to weed out bad comments that are bad because ppl haven't read the thing. (first child comment will call them out, than people will downvote)
- ilaksh 6y agoI don't think reddit has good comment ranking. I think they default to showing the most popular comments. Popularity and merit are not the same thing.
- anotheryou 6y agoit's not perfect, but better than everything else. More detail here: https://redditblog.com/2009/10/15/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system/ https://redditblog.com/2009/10/15/reddits-new-comment-sortin... I love how it's related to the likelihood that the sun will rise again tomorrow (now that we have observed the behavior a few times)