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I would like to propose a small change to the commenting system: Don't shade downvoted comments grey. I've noticed it's like a snowball effect. I've commented
by firefoxman1 15y ago
I would like to propose a small change to the commenting system: Don't shade downvoted comments grey.
I've noticed it's like a snowball effect. I've commented on a post and for hours it wasn't downvoted or even upvoted. But as soon as one person noticed that it had been downvoted, it would get 2 or 3 more.
And I've noticed this impulse in myself. I feel much more compelled to downvote a comment that is already grey than one that isn't, even though the grey one may be a perfectly valid point.
Maybe a good idea would be to only show it greyed out after 3+ downvotes. That way people wouldn't have that knee-jerk reaction to downvote just because someone else has.
- jiggy2011 15y agoI'm sort of the opposite, sometimes I see a gray comment that I wouldn't normally have bothered to vote on either way and think "it's not that bad" and upvote to get it out of gray.
- firefoxman1 15y agoYeah, I've done that a few times as well. I guess it could go either way. I think that's why only displaying as grey after 3+ downvotes would keep people only voting based on their own thoughts and not on how other people have acted on that comment.
- MSexton 15y agoYes, I do this too. It annoys me that it is 'necessary' to do this. I can only hope others agree with me.