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Hiding scores to reduce arguments seems like a very crude and inelegant way of solving the problem. You solve one problem but effectively render the scoring sys
by mixmax 15y ago
Hiding scores to reduce arguments seems like a very crude and inelegant way of solving the problem. You solve one problem but effectively render the scoring system useless in the process.
Surely there is a better way of solving this particular problem, though I'll be the first to admit that I can't think of anything clever.
- stewbrew 15y agoFrom what I gather, scores are still used to order comments.
- kristofferR 15y agoYeah, but judging comments based on the order is almost impossible with the type of threading the comments have now. The top rated comments are also often not at the top due to the algorithm often favoring new comments.
- mixmax 15y agoyes they are, but that doesn't mean that you as a user can extract any meaningful information from them. Where comments show up on a page is a function of time, scores and average karma per post of the poster. The main trunk of a debate will be somewhat navigable by this metric, but the subthreads won't. I did a back of the envelope calculation here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569997 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569997 that shows that there is no way to assess the scores of around 50% of the comments.