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Respectfully disagree. The only ones that will be upvoted a lot will presumably be the funny ones, not the lame ones.
by efficientarch 13y ago
Respectfully disagree. The only ones that will be upvoted a lot will presumably be the funny ones, not the lame ones.
- dang 13y agoThis is a thoughtful comment and a model of how to disagree on Hacker News. Thank you. I wish you were right, but I'm afraid you have an overly rosy view of upvotes. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506762 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506762 shot to #1 in just a few minutes.
- davidw 13y agoSpeaking of moderation ideas, now that there is some new blood, here's another random one. I'm not sure it's any good, and it's kind of vague, but... how about if an article gets flagged enough, the upvoters are "named and shamed" in some (not highly visible) way. It might provide a small incentive to not vote for lame stuff.
- dang 13y agoIt feels wrong to out people's votes, which are normally private. The objections I've been making to inappropriate comments are public only because the comments themselves are.
- davidw 13y agoFair enough. I wouldn't want my comment votes public, but I can't think of any stories where I would mind terribly. I could see reasonable people thinking otherwise, though.
- zimpenfish 13y agoI like the idea but I think it's probably too complex to implement fairly.
- mahmoudhossam 13y agoCERN using comic sans was hardly funny, yet it made the front page.