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This is very subjective, of course, but on slashdot, I think that the highest rated comments on controversial threads (e.g., recent PyCon uproar) were not at al
by RougeFemme 14y ago
This is very subjective, of course, but on slashdot, I think that the highest rated comments on controversial threads (e.g., recent PyCon uproar) were not at all "insightful" or "informative", though labelled as such. They often simply added heat to the discussion, usually with language almost guaranteed to inflame. On HN, a lot of those comments would have been flagged. That doesn't mean they would have been deleted, of course, but they most certainly would have been flagged. I also wonder how the friends/foes system affects moderation. I know that you don't necessarily know if/when you will be given moderation points, but I think it has to explain the scoring of some the comments. How else can you explain how a string of 4-letter words is given a score of 5- insightful/informative/funny?
- PavlovsCat 14y agoI also wonder how the friends/foes system affects moderation. That's just something you can assign your own score to; it doesn't affect anything else.
- zobzu 14y agoall comment systems will eventually score the insightfulness as a whole, based on what the majority think. I do find some high ranked posts to be "not so wise" on any forum, but I don't find "obvious trolls" to be highly rated (be it reddit, hn or /.) the difference that i see with /. however is that I don't get all the high score posts "lost" somewhere because 3 posts have 10292938 points and the others "didn't get voted on recently" (where recently can be the past 5 minutes really)