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IIRC the individual posts are sorted by votes so upvoting should be sufficient
by veyron 15y ago
IIRC the individual posts are sorted by votes so upvoting should be sufficient
- artursapek 15y agoUsually someone choosing to say "This." over upvoting has more to add, thus he writes a comment.
- tikhonj 15y agoI think they're actually sorted by a function of both votes and time--newer posts are ranked above older posts.
- sp332 15y agoThey're sorted by a weird combo of recentness, upvotes, and lack of downvotes. There's no way to tell if a 1-hour-old comment has more upvotes than a 30-second-old comment positioned above it on the page. There's no way to tell if a single comment in a subthread has 0 upvotes or 100. This is the biggest problem, IMHO. Factual statements have no visible score for correctness. There's no way to tell if a comment was upvoted for being interesting, or factually correct. There's no way to tell if the person who upvoted your comment is the same person you replied to.
- wickedchicken 15y agoWhy are you relying on a bunch of random people from the internet to vet factual accuracy? I'm cool with them finding me interesting things, but that's about all I'd trust them for. For example: I use yelp to see when stores are open/closed and if a coffee shop has wifi. I could care less about the reviews, unless one of them happens to position a specific deal I'd be interested in.
- sp332 15y agoHow do you vet factual accuracy?
- wickedchicken 15y agoInvestigating original sources when I can.
- sp332 15y agoHN has an unusually high density of original sources.
- mpd 15y agoOthers' opinions are a litmus test that saves me a lot of time in the long run. I simply don't have the bandwidth to go deep on everything that hits my radar.
- wickedchicken 15y agoWhich is why an 'ambiguous' vote is a good system. It provides you just the right amount of information: "a lot of people think this is worth your time to investigate." Nothing more, nothing less.
- vacri 15y agoI've seen dead comments show up only 1/3 of the way down the list, so there's definitely something else at play.