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I think this is a horrible decision. I've never seen this work. My biggest objection is based on the fact I have to wait for someone to endorse my comment. I p
by yeukhon 13y ago
I think this is a horrible decision. I've never seen this work. My biggest objection is based on the fact I have to wait for someone to endorse my comment.
I post a lot of comments here, regularly. Some of them get hot and turn into a linked-list O(n) depth tree... I also post during time when few people are around. By the time I want to say something interesting and hope someone can engage with me my comment would be so deep down. This is not really karma whoring. But I want to be able to express myself instantly, right away so anyone reading the article at that moment may check out my voice too.
I don't see why we need this restriction. This should be restricted to people who have a history of getting downvoted and people who are new to HN. That makes sense. But people who have been here long enough and with a good record shouldn't be penalized.
Call me impatient but I read and write quickly. I can't wait an hour to get one comment approved.
Note I am well above 1000 karma and I don't like this...
And if the whole point is to promote comments that can contribute to the discussion, then downvote will work just fine. Any uncivil or harsh comment usually get to the bottom of the page quickly. If I express similar or even same opinion as someone else, should my comment be approved? If the answer is yes, then almost every comment should be endorsed. Then what is the whole point of this pending feature?
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- yeukhon 13y agoI am probably too young to think of one with the same restriction. It doesn't work because there is no real gain. The point seems to be to improve the quality of comments. Look. The intention is good. But I don't like this feature. Since most comments will be endorsed eventually, we won't gain much from this restriction. Some people don't understand sarcasm (I am with this group!). Sarcasm is not necessarily a bad thing and can be quite fun to read. This is not a forum where people post scholarly comments. As long as the comment is genuine I personally consider it a good comment. Now some people have a more compelling reason to "karma-whore".
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoI think one compromise could be to remove this restriction from users with > x karma. It's not ideal to me but it is something ...
- tptacek 13y agoA bad comment is a bad comment whether I write it or a green-named user does. Jerkface.
- vacri 13y agoThis is why I think the anonymous idea above is a good add-on, if we have to have this system.
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoum ... ok. But the thing is I don't think this necessary so I would like some way for the echo chamber to not hold. Obviously, the ideal would be to not have the restriction. :)
- yeukhon 13y agoThe number of bad comment is relatively low. And what kind of bad comments are we after?
- tptacek 13y agoWow do I ever disagree with that. Comments on HN have gotten genuinely awful.