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Isn't the ideal outcome of all this a site where the comment threads are worth reading in full instead of skimming? If there are so many skimmable comments in
by waterlesscloud 16y ago
Isn't the ideal outcome of all this a site where the comment threads are worth reading in full instead of skimming?
If there are so many skimmable comments in a thread that not having points gets to be annoying because you have to sift...well, then the experiment has failed.
But if on the other hand there are just plain fewer comments, which does seem like a possible outcome in the mid-range, and those comments are of higher quality...well, experiment has succeeded!
- india 16y agoSkimming allows me to draw my own signal to noise line in the sand which is important irrespective of however good the default signal is. I will never be interested in reading 204 comments about this topic however good they may be. I am definitely interested in reading the top 12 or so. This experiment is horrible.