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I've been trying to give it a chance, but so far it doesn't seem like hiding the vote counts has done anything to improve the quality of comments on HN. Honestl
by gamble 15y ago
I've been trying to give it a chance, but so far it doesn't seem like hiding the vote counts has done anything to improve the quality of comments on HN. Honestly, I think it's had the opposite effect. The number of in-depth comments seems to have plummeted.
- alex_c 15y agoIt's pretty hard to quantify quality of comments, and I've seen at least one other comment in this thread saying the quality of comments has gone up (personally, I'm undecided). I wonder how much one's perception of the change in comment quality is colored by their initial opinion about hidden comment scores.
- allwein 15y agoI've noticed that the people who seem to think that comment quality has gone down are the same people who used to skim and only read the high-voted comments. It seems like the people who used to read all of the comments regardless of vote, seem to think that comment quality has gone up. It's possible that the former groups impression of comment quality might be attributable to the fact that they are now reading lower quality comments that were always there, but which they weren't exposed to given their reading style.