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Commenters are partially motivated by the upvotes they receive for astute observations, which is a good thing. But this also encourages critics to compete for
by libria 13y ago
Commenters are partially motivated by the upvotes they receive for astute observations, which is a good thing. But this also encourages critics to compete for that "score: 5, Insightful" by finding the first chink in the armor.
I also prefer to leave it up the voters to reward/discourage behavior, rather than content campaigning.
- sitkack 13y agoIt is like doing a mini-qual every time a new story makes it above the fold. And it is great, because the page just sits there and I get to attack it with deep nuanced arguments about stuff it didn't think about, stupid web page. So yes, the astute observations of which the negative ones are usually the easiest to come up with (humans are choice rankers first, creators a distant n-th) get us points, and those points give us dopamine. Remember when EVERYONE could see the points? The problem was even worse. Really, the points should go away or be delayed.