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Very interesting, but giving them the title ‘leaders’ seems a bit.. overbearing? Do not get me wrong, there is some very interesting stuff there but half of ga

by jorvi 4y ago

Very interesting, but giving them the title ‘leaders’ seems a bit.. overbearing? Do not get me wrong, there is some very interesting stuff there but half of gathering chunks of upvotes is not rocking the boat and saying anything that goes against the echo chamber.

goodpoint 4y ago
You'll be downvoted for saying this. EDIT: just as I'm being downvoted. The echo chamber cannot be called out. EDIT: the guideline of not discussing downvotes hardly applies here!!
- boomboomsubban 4y ago
  HN guidelines >Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. edit >the guideline of not discussing downvotes hardly applies here!! Why? Your entire post was "You'll be downvoted for saying this."
  - CRConrad 4y ago
    I think they meant it doesn't apply on this entire page. Which seems reasonble, since the whole thread is about posts ranked by commenter's karma, which is a direct reflection of votes. How could "not discussing downvotes" be an appropriate guideline in a discussion specifically about comment votes?
drpancake 4y ago
It's named after the karma leaderboard page: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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denton-scratch 4y ago
> not rocking the boat and saying anything that goes against the echo chamber I think there may be something in that. My most-upvoted comments have been (a) comments to the root article, not sub-comments; and (b) generally rather short and 'flip'. Apart from that, I can't find any pattern in which comments get upvoted and which don't. I don't (I hope) post echo-chamber comments; if everyone already agrees with me, there's no point in posting. I post what I think are insightful comments, that stick on 1 forever; and comments that I know are controversial, that scoop 20 upvotes in 10 minutes. I also occasionally post vacuous, "witty" one-liners that, to my surprise, garner lots of upvotes. I don't post for karma; I post for sub-comments, i.e. I want to discuss stuff. I don't like long comment threads on HN though; so I never post more than one or two replies to my own thread.

by jorvi 4y ago

goodpoint 4y ago

You'll be downvoted for saying this. EDIT: just as I'm being downvoted. The echo chamber cannot be called out. EDIT: the guideline of not discussing downvotes hardly applies here!!

boomboomsubban 4y ago
HN guidelines >Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. edit >the guideline of not discussing downvotes hardly applies here!! Why? Your entire post was "You'll be downvoted for saying this."
- CRConrad 4y ago
  I think they meant it doesn't apply on this entire page. Which seems reasonble, since the whole thread is about posts ranked by commenter's karma, which is a direct reflection of votes. How could "not discussing downvotes" be an appropriate guideline in a discussion specifically about comment votes?

drpancake 4y ago

It's named after the karma leaderboard page: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

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denton-scratch 4y ago

> not rocking the boat and saying anything that goes against the echo chamber I think there may be something in that. My most-upvoted comments have been (a) comments to the root article, not sub-comments; and (b) generally rather short and 'flip'. Apart from that, I can't find any pattern in which comments get upvoted and which don't. I don't (I hope) post echo-chamber comments; if everyone already agrees with me, there's no point in posting. I post what I think are insightful comments, that stick on 1 forever; and comments that I know are controversial, that scoop 20 upvotes in 10 minutes. I also occasionally post vacuous, "witty" one-liners that, to my surprise, garner lots of upvotes. I don't post for karma; I post for sub-comments, i.e. I want to discuss stuff. I don't like long comment threads on HN though; so I never post more than one or two replies to my own thread.