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I'm curious about the relationship to score and down-voting. He's a hypothesis: with actual scores shown, down-voting was less severe. From my observations, t
by clarkevans 15y ago
I'm curious about the relationship to score and down-voting. He's a hypothesis: with actual scores shown, down-voting was less severe.
From my observations, this community tends to not like jokes, even if they are slightly clever. For new users, a getting solid -5 on a first comment is a pretty solid discouragement. In particular, I'm wondering if there was previously a community consensus that -1 or -2 was enough of a signal?
I think if you're going to signal anything, perhaps it's who new/infrequent posters are?
- tokenadult 15y agoI think if you're going to signal anything, perhaps it's who new/infrequent posters are? When the experiment of not showing comment karma scores started, another experiment started of showing the usernames of new users (I'm not completely sure how "new" is defined algorithmically for this purpose) with a style indication that in my browser shows up as green text. See http://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments http://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments to see how that styling appears in your browser settings.