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Why not put a new mental rule in place: Do not upvote top level comments unless they are extremely new <10 minutes ago. Then you get the benefits of hidden scor
by dfc 13y ago
Why not put a new mental rule in place: Do not upvote top level comments unless they are extremely new <10 minutes ago. Then you get the benefits of hidden scores and you do not contribute to burying the interesting discussions. It is also worth rethinking blindly up-voting. How reasonable is it to expect a comment scoring system to succeed when users blindly upvote things?
- jcampbell1 13y agoThat is a good suggestion for me, but it doesn't fix anything. I want to read interesting, comprehensive, and nuanced comments. My voting won't change that. The reason HN moved to blind voting was because there was ugly complaining about high karma users. HN should have hidden the usernames rather than the votes. The Economist works this way. My new theory is that HN should exploit the Hawthorne effect. Basically change the rules constantly to get the best results.