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I'm not understanding the downside? If the post is offtopic/noise why is -4 a magic threshold? If that threshold can be justified why not incorporate it into H
by fluidcruft 16y ago
I'm not understanding the downside?
If the post is offtopic/noise why is -4 a magic threshold? If that threshold can be justified why not incorporate it into HN as policy? If it's just to protect egoes, then HN can just secretly use something like a log scale or some other relationship when displaying karma to users.
If voting patterns are more independent of a post's current karma, the measurement should be less biased. The same is true for positive karma--I often don't bother vote up comments that already have relatively "high" karma.
- noonespecial 16y agoIts the functional equivalent of "someone should tell him that his comment is just a little off", and the score: "oh, good, someone has | I guess no ones done it yet, I guess I will".
- fluidcruft 16y agoI would see loosing a record of your evaluation as a loss for the community. You've gone to the effort of evaluating the content, but your feedback is not recorded and is treated the same as if you had not read it at all. Maybe rather than just ^/v voting, capturing that sentiment is better handled by an agree--disagree scale.