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I think that in that case a submission may get killed for too many comments with respect to the number of upvotes.
by nsajko 6y ago
I think that in that case a submission may get killed for too many comments with respect to the number of upvotes.
- brudgers 6y agoI don’t think that’s the way HN works. My impression is votes/comments only affects submissions with a significant number of votes. I don’t think votes/comment ratio kills submissions with only a few votes. Submissions with only a few votes tend to die from lack of votes all on their own. My impression is votes/comment ratio is a signal for off the rail discussions. And it is not a hard rule with simple logic. That’s why adding a comment is enough and a special editorial field is not implemented.