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The practical result of comment karms is in ordering comments, and if you always keep that perspective in mind when voting I believe the threads will be a lot m
by nikcub 16y ago
The practical result of comment karms is in ordering comments, and if you always keep that perspective in mind when voting I believe the threads will be a lot more interesting.
For eg. opinions that you may strongly disagree with, but that you think anybody clicking the comment thread must read should be voted up so they appear higher.
Karma shouldn't be seen as keeping score on who is right or who is wrong, more about being on-topic and interesting.
- Terretta 16y agoI suggested a change from comment arrows to comment action links to help clarify this in PG's "How do we fix this?" thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2408048 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2408048 In the final iteration of my suggestion, the upvote was replaced with the link word "interesting" for exactly your reason.