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Yeah, I know. The underlying problem is the same. I've spent a good deal of time thinking about how to fix it. I wonder if it would work to normalize votes b
by pg 13y ago
Yeah, I know. The underlying problem is the same. I've spent a good deal of time thinking about how to fix it. I wonder if it would work to normalize votes based on how far down the page a comment is. God would that complicate the code though.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoYou should name the feature the anti-bike shed.
- porker 13y agoCould we also have a communal "hide posts by this user" feature? Over time the aggregate data would be useful to detect who is like this - especially if we can select a reason for hiding a user.
- chris_l 13y agoWhy don't you weight votes by age of the account? That would make the "old HN" more influential in the current one.
- pg 13y agoInterestingly enough, in this case that would have worked. If you only counted the votes of the oldest accounts, the comment in question would have had negative points.
- lotharbot 13y agoOne of my suggestions to solve the mean-dumb-upvoted comment problem: if a comment is truly so mean or dumb that the moderators choose to kill it, allow them the option of applying a karma penalty to anyone who upvoted it (which should come with an automated warning message so people know why their karma suddenly dropped). It's, in a sense, a way of voting on votes. People might still upvote such comments, but at least then they'll know they're taking a risk by violating HN standards.