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From a visual inspection things look the same as always.

by pg 16y ago

vessenes 16y ago
Do you have thoughts on some automated algorithms enterprising folk could implement?
mixmax 16y ago
from this users inspection things don't. - I spend substantially more time wading through comments because I can't pick out the good ones. This is particularly true of nested threads. - I often vote based on the current score. If the score is as the comment deserves (in my opinion) I leave it, otherwise I upvote. I rarely downvote. - I can't pick out whether a comment is valid (based on scores, and thus the opinion of other users). For instance if a user writes in a comment that joshua schachter never invests in B2B startups I don't know how valid it is. - When someone responds to a comment I like to see the votes. This is particularly useful when someone disagres with me - if the response gets a lot of upvotes I can be fairly certain I'm wrong. If I don't see the votes I won't know. Besides, if we don't see scores they're not much good to users. My bet is that over time people will vote less, since they don't immediately see their impact anyway.
- mixmax 16y ago
  This comment thread is a pretty good example of what I'm talking about: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438577 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438577 Do people here think this is a forum for entrepreneurs? Do people think it's OK to link to the HN thread and not the post? Without the votes I simply don't know.
dangrossman 16y ago
I'm wasting a lot more time figuring out the comments than before. The points would guide you to the really important ones (factual corrections, context, valid rebuttals), now I have to skim everything and can't tell whether there's a consensus or not.
klochner 16y ago
What about average time spent on site?
soamv 16y ago
Is the average number of comment upvotes per day the same? Would that prove that people don't care about how many upvotes a comment has when they vote? Or how about the distribution of upvotes over comments under one post -- are upvotes more uniformly distributed? Do the comments on the bestcomments list have greater or fewer upvotes on an average?

From a visual inspection things look the same as always.

by pg 16y ago

From a visual inspection things look the same as always.

vessenes 16y ago

Do you have thoughts on some automated algorithms enterprising folk could implement?

mixmax 16y ago

from this users inspection things don't. - I spend substantially more time wading through comments because I can't pick out the good ones. This is particularly true of nested threads. - I often vote based on the current score. If the score is as the comment deserves (in my opinion) I leave it, otherwise I upvote. I rarely downvote. - I can't pick out whether a comment is valid (based on scores, and thus the opinion of other users). For instance if a user writes in a comment that joshua schachter never invests in B2B startups I don't know how valid it is. - When someone responds to a comment I like to see the votes. This is particularly useful when someone disagres with me - if the response gets a lot of upvotes I can be fairly certain I'm wrong. If I don't see the votes I won't know. Besides, if we don't see scores they're not much good to users. My bet is that over time people will vote less, since they don't immediately see their impact anyway.

mixmax 16y ago
This comment thread is a pretty good example of what I'm talking about: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438577 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438577 Do people here think this is a forum for entrepreneurs? Do people think it's OK to link to the HN thread and not the post? Without the votes I simply don't know.

dangrossman 16y ago

I'm wasting a lot more time figuring out the comments than before. The points would guide you to the really important ones (factual corrections, context, valid rebuttals), now I have to skim everything and can't tell whether there's a consensus or not.

klochner 16y ago

What about average time spent on site?

soamv 16y ago

Is the average number of comment upvotes per day the same? Would that prove that people don't care about how many upvotes a comment has when they vote? Or how about the distribution of upvotes over comments under one post -- are upvotes more uniformly distributed? Do the comments on the bestcomments list have greater or fewer upvotes on an average?