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It wasn't that long ago I got down voted on HN for saying this was going to happen.

by wnevets 9mo ago

gpt5 9mo ago
As a general rule of thumb in sites like Reddit and HN - the quality of votes is significantly lower than the quality of comments. This is because it takes much more effort to comment, so there is a selection bias.
- musicale 9mo ago
  I'm not convinced that downvotes add much value. They should be a "this is irrelevant/spam" button but in practice they seem to be used as a "dislike" button to enforce groupthink.
  - deleted 9mo ago
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  - xtracto 9mo ago
    Slashdot moderation and something going by having people tag comments as Insightful, Interesting, Offtopic or flamebait. It assigned positive or negative points based on that. The two problems were the horrible UI and that at some points evaluators used te negative tags just to punish views they didn't agree with. But maybe an AI evaluator would be less biased?
Gracana 9mo ago
Voting can be for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes I downvote things like that because I want to bury bait that would send an argument into a well-trodden and boring direction.
- Ylpertnodi 9mo ago
  Let the reader decide? I - incredibly rarely - downvote. It's either vote up, or move along.
  - Gracana 9mo ago
    You're strategy is good. I'm a bit jaded. I try to make up for it with upvotes and clarifying comments... Seems like I often run into people arguing over a misunderstanding.
    - Gracana 9mo ago
      "You are strategy is good." And I missed the edit window, oof.
fn-mote 9mo ago
Yeah… I don’t understand how anyone could look at the prevalence of advertising and affiliate links on the internet and believe they would for some reason stay away from the LLM products. Sure Sam Altman and his $200/mo subscribers won’t see them, but it was clear they were coming for free users.
- wnevets 9mo ago
  >$200/mo subscribers won’t see them Yet. Amazon Prime has ads despite it being a paid service.

It wasn't that long ago I got down voted on HN for saying this was going to happen.

by wnevets 9mo ago

It wasn't that long ago I got down voted on HN for saying this was going to happen.

gpt5 9mo ago

As a general rule of thumb in sites like Reddit and HN - the quality of votes is significantly lower than the quality of comments. This is because it takes much more effort to comment, so there is a selection bias.

musicale 9mo ago
I'm not convinced that downvotes add much value. They should be a "this is irrelevant/spam" button but in practice they seem to be used as a "dislike" button to enforce groupthink.
- deleted 9mo ago
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- xtracto 9mo ago
  Slashdot moderation and something going by having people tag comments as Insightful, Interesting, Offtopic or flamebait. It assigned positive or negative points based on that. The two problems were the horrible UI and that at some points evaluators used te negative tags just to punish views they didn't agree with. But maybe an AI evaluator would be less biased?

Gracana 9mo ago

Voting can be for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes I downvote things like that because I want to bury bait that would send an argument into a well-trodden and boring direction.

Ylpertnodi 9mo ago
Let the reader decide? I - incredibly rarely - downvote. It's either vote up, or move along.
- Gracana 9mo ago
  You're strategy is good. I'm a bit jaded. I try to make up for it with upvotes and clarifying comments... Seems like I often run into people arguing over a misunderstanding.
  - Gracana 9mo ago
    "You are strategy is good." And I missed the edit window, oof.

fn-mote 9mo ago

Yeah… I don’t understand how anyone could look at the prevalence of advertising and affiliate links on the internet and believe they would for some reason stay away from the LLM products. Sure Sam Altman and his $200/mo subscribers won’t see them, but it was clear they were coming for free users.

wnevets 9mo ago
>$200/mo subscribers won’t see them Yet. Amazon Prime has ads despite it being a paid service.