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Comments with so little value that they get downvoted already cost the commenter karma. Most posts that have not reached the front page yet do not reach the fr
by mooism2 14y ago
Comments with so little value that they get downvoted already cost the commenter karma.
Most posts that have not reached the front page yet do not reach the front page at all. Comments on pages that do not reach the front page have much less opportunity to receive upvotes. This proposal risks discouraging comments on submissions that have not reached the front page; since some submissions only reach the front page because of the comments, this would harm HN.
- bryanlarsen 14y agoYou also don't want to penalize comments on articles that have dropped off the front page. They're useful to people who get to an article through Google. These readers are much less likely to be logged in and thus, much less likely to upvote.
- badclient 14y agoSurely that can be addressed by weighing comments differently base on the position of the post or the number of page views etc.?