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The downvoting needs one simple change. It should not drop comment's score below zero until it has been effectively voted down to -10 or thereabouts, in which c
by abcd_f 16y ago
The downvoting needs one simple change. It should not drop comment's score below zero until it has been effectively voted down to -10 or thereabouts, in which case it can be safely assumed the comment is a true junk and grayed out.
I personally used to use downvoting to sink comments that are of no particular interest to me, and to promote other branches of the thread that I'd like more people to look at and comment on. So there's gotta be a mechanism that would allow for rearranging comments in a more popular order, but without punishing their authors unnecessarily.
- bogomips 16y agoI personally used to use downvoting to sink comments that are of no particular interest to me, and to promote other branches of the thread that I'd like more people to look at and comment on. This is exactly what is wrong with HN. It is essentially a (rather desperate) attempt to create reality through votes. The math is difficult, but honestly I would like good statistical correlations to happen, such that people like you are excluded from the vote counts (or the impact of the same) that I see. If there are circles of people who want to manufacture a delusion of a particular blend of crazy, the correlation engine should see their common ambitions and reflect that for just them. I don't want those potentially useful comments hidden, or trite sophistry at the top, simply because some subset of users wants to impose that will.