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I seriously doubt he's "constantly" thinking of ways to improve the site. That aside, (and I really apologize for anyone interpreting this as a negative comment
by arthurcolle 13y ago
I seriously doubt he's "constantly" thinking of ways to improve the site. That aside, (and I really apologize for anyone interpreting this as a negative comment), I highly respect pg but at the same time, wtf? Are the comments really that bad to deserve this honestly draconian new approach? This might seem like a short-term solution to the "problem" of poor comments but it is not a true solution! Rather, it is a poorly thought out filtering mechanism that doesn't apply merit into the determination of filtering, but instead uses the totally superficial criterion of "karma point count" instead of anything other than a time-based evaluation strategy. I think it only further contributes to the "redditization" of online communities and this inevitably lowers the quality of comments by increasing the barrier to entry of commenters and will over time force inter-comment dynamics into becoming increasingly censored.
Imagine an oldguy commenter with 2400 karma is in a discussion with a newb. He could be prowling the pending comments and could simply flag a newbreply just because he disagrees, thereby artificially making it look like he has "won" an argument even though he has just forced a newbreply into oblivion, despite whatever logical argumentation newb has employed in his reply.
This is bad. :(
- sanswork 13y agoIf you're abusing the flag system you're going to lose the right to it really quickly or flat out be banned same as it is currently.
- markfenton 13y agoBut if the user with the higher karma is the only one interested in that thread they could easily just ignore the posts they disagree with so they never get endorsed. It leads to the same outcome, yet they appear to have done nothing wrong.
- sanswork 13y agoI don't really see the issue with this unless getting the last word in publicly on a discussion forum is vitally important. The new person has posted, the higher karma one has seen it and chosen not to reply thus ending the conversation. If there is really no other attention then nothing has changed from the older person seeing the reply and ignoring it.
- ddoolin 13y agoThe entire issue is that you don't see a problem with censorship. They would have to endorse ANY comment, not just replies to their own posts.
- sanswork 13y agoThis isn't censorship and I think that word gets thrown around much too loosely. If there are multiple people in the discussion then it is very likely more than one will pass the threshold to vote. If there isn't then nothing of value is lost as you still get to make your comment to the other side, you still get your last word in, it is just not public and the conversation will die immediately. Much how it is now if the other side doesn't reply to you.