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This comment was the last straw that made me fire off an email to dang regarding the recent decline in comment quality with a few structural changes that I thin

This comment was the last straw that made me fire off an email to dang regarding the recent decline in comment quality with a few structural changes that I think may help; let’s see what comes out of it.

GaggiX 3y ago
Your account was created in 2023 and you talk as if you have been on this site since the beginning of time.
- treyd 3y ago
  To be fair, I read HN regularly since 2016 but only created an account since the reddit fiasco looking to engage more actively. Could be a similar situation.
- supriyo-biswas 3y ago
  I’ve been a reader of this site since 2018, but only have I recently created an account.
  - GaggiX 3y ago
    Then you should know that people have been frequently mentioning Reddit since 2009, which is why it's even mentioned in the guidelines.
    - supriyo-biswas 3y ago
      The Redditization is real this time though. Just because something wasn’t true previously doesn’t mean it continues to be that way.
      - GaggiX 3y ago
        "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills." Read the guidelines.
swyx 3y ago
what changes do you propose?
- speedgoose 3y ago
  We train a LLM classifier using a HN dataset and a Reddit dataset to automatically flag the Reddit like comments. People can then decide to hide them in their settings. I’m not sure when to put the cut-off date for the HN dataset. The eternal September started in 1993 and HN in 2007, we need at least a few comments.
  - supriyo-biswas 3y ago
    There’s no need for a cut-off date; just take highly upvoted comments off Reddit and find similar comments on HN as determined by word vectorization, and then train a model off of that. Or maybe even skip the similarity step; after all the goal is to find Reddit like comments.
- supriyo-biswas 3y ago
  Primarily caps karma earning limits and voting limits, which should (at least I think) nudge people towards more thoughtful voting patterns and comments. The unintended effect may be that high-contribution users are disincentivized from participating.

GaggiX 3y ago

Your account was created in 2023 and you talk as if you have been on this site since the beginning of time.

treyd 3y ago
To be fair, I read HN regularly since 2016 but only created an account since the reddit fiasco looking to engage more actively. Could be a similar situation.
supriyo-biswas 3y ago
I’ve been a reader of this site since 2018, but only have I recently created an account.
- GaggiX 3y ago
  Then you should know that people have been frequently mentioning Reddit since 2009, which is why it's even mentioned in the guidelines.
  - supriyo-biswas 3y ago
    The Redditization is real this time though. Just because something wasn’t true previously doesn’t mean it continues to be that way.
    - GaggiX 3y ago
      "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills." Read the guidelines.

swyx 3y ago

what changes do you propose?

speedgoose 3y ago
We train a LLM classifier using a HN dataset and a Reddit dataset to automatically flag the Reddit like comments. People can then decide to hide them in their settings. I’m not sure when to put the cut-off date for the HN dataset. The eternal September started in 1993 and HN in 2007, we need at least a few comments.
- supriyo-biswas 3y ago
  There’s no need for a cut-off date; just take highly upvoted comments off Reddit and find similar comments on HN as determined by word vectorization, and then train a model off of that. Or maybe even skip the similarity step; after all the goal is to find Reddit like comments.
supriyo-biswas 3y ago
Primarily caps karma earning limits and voting limits, which should (at least I think) nudge people towards more thoughtful voting patterns and comments. The unintended effect may be that high-contribution users are disincentivized from participating.