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Online comment systems reveal multiple layers of social bias
- AndrewDucker 13y agoParticularly interesting in the context of pg's removal of the ability to see comment scores.
- krapp 13y agoI really wish this thread would've gotten more attention... But anyway, I wonder if this bias could be managed not making karma scores or vote counts public. The cumulative effect of votes could still be used to sort the list and everything, but I think seeing the actual number there is what leads to users, consciously or not, turning it into a points game. Really what should matter is judging a post on its own merit and whether its been marked down or not.