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Scores were an important way for me to learn what constitutes a good comment. I realized this only after the scores went away. So I second the idea of showing
by divtxt 16y ago
Scores were an important way for me to learn what constitutes a good comment.
I realized this only after the scores went away.
So I second the idea of showing the score for older articles. (or a fuzzy indicator of the score e.g. @=2-5, @@=6-10 etc)
edit: use @ because stars were being escaped
- duck 16y agoWhat is a good comment though? I think our minds can be tricked that something is good just by a high score. I'm liking this new way as it makes me actually think about the comments more and I determine if it is good or not. This probably ends up taking more "time", but maybe it is worth more.
- divtxt 16y agoYou're right - I should be thinking and deciding for myself. But if judging the value of a comment requires expertise or experience that I do not have the score is valuable to me. This is more so when I see a comment and a counter-argument. And if I wrote the parent, a high-scoring reply would make reconsider my position.