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It's answers like this that make me wish for the karma/comment score system to be returned. I 100% agree - the "information density" is just digg-like and, as a
by ScottWhigham 14y ago
It's answers like this that make me wish for the karma/comment score system to be returned. I 100% agree - the "information density" is just digg-like and, as a result, I'm out. But if I just upvote you, so what? Maybe it floats to the top, maybe it doesn't. Who knows how many people agreed with you? You might get 150 votes but no one will ever know that 150 people agreed with you. And if I was the developer/Brad, I'd want to know that "150 people in my target audience agreed with this" vs. "This is the top commment as voted on by an unknown number of people".
- jgrahamc 14y agoIf you really want to know how many points that comment received then use the HNSearch API.
- alanctgardner2 14y agoWell, I appreciate your upvote ;) More seriously, I think the tone of the comments on HN is not supposed to be binary: we don't aim for solely critical or supportive feedback. We try to improve things by offering suggestions. That my comment made it to the top means my suggestions were widely viewed as useful, or at least my criticism was accurate. The magnitude of the negative sentiment isn't really important. It's the fact that, if the creator values HN's input, he should accept suggestions more-or-less from the top down, and weight them appropriately. If he scrolls to the bottom to see some generic 'Good work man, way to hustle', he doesn't really get it, does he?