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It also decreases the level of engagement, readability of a thread, and because weighting of comments is now invisible there is no reason to upvote or downvote
by wavephorm 15y ago
It also decreases the level of engagement, readability of a thread, and because weighting of comments is now invisible there is no reason to upvote or downvote anything, or read any particular comment over another. It's all just one big blob of text that I have to manually sift through. Might as well just remove the arrows because they serve no purpose now.
- brlewis 15y agoVotes still help move a comment above or below its siblings.
- mixmax 15y agoexcept for the fact that in a threaded discussion where points is only one of the parameters (time and user karma being the other tow as far as I know) this isn't true for most comments. I did the numbers for a long thread some time ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569997 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569997
- frossie 15y agoI am not convinced hiding points results in voter apathy. My points received per comment seem to be higher after that change. Of course PG has presumably actual statistics about this.
- pbhjpbhj 15y ago>My points received per comment seem to be higher after that change. // One often gets a lot of votes for a low value comment, something like a clarification. It's clearly valuable but before people would see that the vote on it was say at 2 points and wouldn't vote it up as that would be the right level for such a comment. Comments that would have been -1 before now appear to be faded to almost nothing. I've no idea what that means WRT downvotes but presumably it means most everyone hates the opinion in that comment.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoThis.