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"In decline" suggests it can go any lower. Bring comment scores back, HN is getting even worse than before (which is really saying something) without them.
by mtogo 15y ago
"In decline" suggests it can go any lower.
Bring comment scores back, HN is getting even worse than before (which is really saying something) without them.
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- bermanoid 15y agoI'm going to reiterate a suggestion I've made before: HN could (potentially) benefit greatly from a karma-rank system inspired by Pagerank, so that votes from more highly respected users carry more weight. The community at the moment is undergoing a serious reversion to the mean, and that's going to cause a whole lot more evaporative cooling if it's left unchecked. While I realize it's incredibly unlikely that he'd agree, if pg would share a dump of the vote graph and the other necessary data with me in some way (anonymized, IP-stripped, +NDA, etc.) I'd gladly prototype this kind of system to see how much of an effect it would have had on the past stories and comments. I think it would be interesting to see if it helps, even as I fully realize that backtesting cannot capture the second-order effects that would really make this effective (for instance, changes to presentation order would also change voting patterns, similar to how in Google the first results get an extra boost because they're more likely to pick up new backlinks since people find them easier).