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Bluntly, I don't want to read every comment.
by mcav 15y ago
Bluntly, I don't want to read every comment.
- bane 15y agoYou don't have to. Highly voted comments are helpfully floated to the top of the thread or post. Just read a few at the top and you should be good to go.
- JangoSteve 15y agoYes, but regardless of how valuable comments are in relation to each other, it is still no indication of how valuable they are independently. For instance, the top comment at the top of the page may have 10 karma and 50 replies, while the next valuable comment has 15 karma (but was submitted 3 hours earlier), and isn't visible until halfway down the page. Without the karma displayed, it's much more difficult to skim the thread. And for all I know, the rest of the comments only have 1 point.
- Travis 15y agoInteresting -- I never paid much attention to the relative weights, because I figured that the piling on effect was always taking place. So I used karma to figure out which contents to start to read, by some sort of ad hoc guess at what overall karma % a comment had in a thread. Plus, I recall from my reddit days that the earliest comments are way more likely to receive votes. So I always ended up trying to divide the karma by the time since post, which just distracted me. Different strokes I s'pose.
- brg 15y agoReplies to the top level comment are still surfaced regardless of their value. So there is no visual queue available to me to filter out replies and secondary comments by estimated value.
- jpenney 15y agoNot to be rude, but that may be part of the problem.
- mcav 15y agoNah. How's anyone supposed to create anything if they're busy reading HN all day? I have enough trouble as is.