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That is exactly the plan. To prevent the change from being too disruptive I set all the parameters controlling pending comments very loose. I know a lot of pe
by pg 13y ago
That is exactly the plan. To prevent the change from being too disruptive I set all the parameters controlling pending comments very loose.
I know a lot of people are worried that this will break HN socially. I frankly am relieved it didn't break HN literally. The new code touches so many things. I'm amazed it works. But if it does seem to be breaking HN socially, we'll tweak it till it doesn't, and if that's impossible, we'll turn it off. I'm not wedded to having pending comments. I just wanted to try it to see if it can eliminate the very worst comments.
- alecsmart1 13y agoWe already have upvoting/downvoting of comments. Why do we need to moderate each and every comment? A non-popular post will have no comments at all as all will be pending and no 1000+ karma users to endorse the comments. :(
- dsrguru 13y agoOr, if the purpose is to have high karma users function as semi-moderators, why not just keep the upvote/downvote system but make a comment's precedence a function of weighted upvotes based on the karma of those voters? I guess that still wouldn't prevent a very deep off-topic tangent off of an ancestor post that's high up on the page, but it seems like a simpler and safer solution with much less potential downside, and there are always specific solutions to the above problem such as collapsable threads.
- eslaught 13y agoYou mean page rank for comments?
- frik 13y agoPlease make the page a bit more mobile device (touch) friendly. A simple HTML5 media query (CSS) that increase the font-size, add some space around the links (above the comments) and make the page content (table width) 100%. Thanks.