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Sometimes I have a tendency to read the top comment before clicking on links. Most of the time the top comment is a contrarian comment if it's a news article or
by jonathanjaeger 13y ago
Sometimes I have a tendency to read the top comment before clicking on links. Most of the time the top comment is a contrarian comment if it's a news article or blog post. So that makes me view the article in a different way, which can be good but might also be a self-fulfilling prophecy that causes me not to form my own opinion. On the other hand, regardless of what I read first I side with the HN commenter's point of view over seemingly uninformed articles.
- wahnfrieden 13y agoI think we can trust HN commenters to produce a contrarian viewpoint for anything thrown their way, unfortunately. At this point, HN might be better off without karma at all for comments, or just a "flag" like for submissions.
- bobbo3 13y agoBe careful. Many articles submitted to HN are just fucking awful articles, and we actually want contrarian viewpoints to counter the bollocks pumped out. Banning Techcrunch, ExtremeTech (such a terrible website full of dreadful garbage), MotherJones and so many other shitty websites would do more to help HN than any karma modifications.
- sageikosa 13y agoNo we can't.