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Slashdot got popular and the insightful comments got drowned out by Funny+5 because it's low effort karma building that feels like being popular. I learned my
by benlivengood 6y ago
Slashdot got popular and the insightful comments got drowned out by Funny+5 because it's low effort karma building that feels like being popular.
I learned my lesson and try to only inject humor into otherwise useful comments on HN.
- DangitBobby 6y agoThis is one of those things that I did not realize kills discourse until I experienced a community that mainly posts serious content and discussion. Reddit now is particularly bad as each thread is sea of quips, one-liners, and trashtalk which pretty much floods out the pond of interesting discussion. "Funny" can be a great thing, but if that's all anyone ever tries to offer, it becomes very tiresome.
- anaerobicover 6y agoI agree. Cheap/stupid jokes mostly get downvoted here, and it's one of the things I like about HN!
- mattmanser 6y agoTo be fair to reddit, there are plenty of subreddits that have similar policies (e.g. /r/science). It works most of the time apart from when a particular post ends up x-posted or on /r/popular or something similar.
- noizejoy 6y agoMy memory is fuzzy on my slashdot days, but wasn’t there a way to filter the funny suff?
- pseudalopex 6y agoThe Outstanding filter seems to just show Insightful and Interesting comments.
- joquarky 6y agoI vaguely recall that there was a way for each user to set a bias for each moderation tag, so you could put -5 on the "Funny" tag and effectively hide them (or at least move them to the bottom of the comments).
- r00fus 6y agoto my recollection you didn't gain karma on funny mods. So a completely boneheaded comment may net -8 karma, but still show up as +5 Funny which would be the "ironic" Funny comment.