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Well, you still can't trust everything, but voting mechanisms tend to help filter out some of the BS.
by j2bax 3y ago
Well, you still can't trust everything, but voting mechanisms tend to help filter out some of the BS.
- robocat 3y agoVoting mechanisms sometimes help drown the worst comments. Often voting doesn’t help the best comments float to the top, because the best comments are often replies to other low-vote comments. Dan Luu writes insightfully about HN comments here: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/ https://danluu.com/hn-comments/