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Really? This is inconceivable to me. I think they are essential for sorting good comments from bad. Here's an experiment -- Try reading your next HN thread fro
by zug_zug 6y ago
Really? This is inconceivable to me. I think they are essential for sorting good comments from bad.
Here's an experiment -- Try reading your next HN thread from bottom (most downvoted) to top, and see if it's an equal experience.
I find that any service that doesn't do vote-ranking (e.g. newspaper forums) usually turns atrocious almost immediately.
- loceng 6y agoThe problem is downvotes allow for people to affect the environment with very limited effort, so there's selection bias that gives you that view point that better comments are at the top. Likewise, those comments at the top arguably would already be at the top simply with the upvote mechanism - the "lower quality" comments would be at the bottom anyway, no?