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Yes, 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
by JangoSteve 16y ago
Yes, 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 16y 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.