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Without the comment scores we're confronted with a wall of text that is hard to filter. Should I have to read every single comment just to find the gems? Commen
by RuadhanMc 15y ago
Without the comment scores we're confronted with a wall of text that is hard to filter. Should I have to read every single comment just to find the gems? Comments scores have their downsides but they make filtering out noise much easier.
Unfortunately I don't think everyone has time to judge each comment on its own merits -- there are simply too many comments -- so we need a little crowd-sourced ranking. It does lead to some group think at times but that's a (relatively) small price to pay.
- Terretta 15y agoIn my experience, "wall of text" and "TL;DR" began as terms used by those generally uncomfortable with literacy or focused attention. Skimming is a valuable skill, becoming even more important as the world generates information ever faster.
- RuadhanMc 15y agoHow about just having a finite amount of time in which to read the news? I'd prefer to focus on attention on filtered comments rather than waste time skimming hundreds of comments.
- Terretta 15y agoFocus on "filtered" comments is a completely different discussion, and offering users an unnumbered slider to set personal threshold for where the grey vs black text divider falls on a percentile line between top and bottom scored remarks of the given thread, would accomplish 90% of what the TL;DR crowd want w/o all the problems of showing scores.
- RuadhanMc 15y agoIt's not really a different discussions if you viewed scored comments as filtered comments.