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Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. One of the problems with other commenting systems is what I call The Clean Slate Effect. If a troll is sucky on site A, the

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. One of the problems with other commenting systems is what I call The Clean Slate Effect. If a troll is sucky on site A, then goes to site B, they start over with a clean slate and can continue being sucky. Words benefits from the fact that it's web-Wide. If a user is terrible, they get silenced everywhere. You're totally right (as was Paul Graham when he spoke about how Hacker News is evolving) that these sorts of systems get worse the larger they get. And that getting too big too fast is definitely a bad thing. Just look at Digg. So I definitely anticipate badness down the road, but feel the code foundation is there to deal with it as it comes.

frankacter 12y ago
>One of the problems with other commenting systems is what I call The Clean Slate Effect. If a troll is sucky on site A, then goes to site B, they start over with a clean slate and can continue being sucky. How is this different than any other 3rd party commenting system like Disqus or Facebook?
- fivedogit 12y ago
  So. Many. Reasons. Just give it a try and you'll see.
visarga 12y ago
> these sorts of systems get worse the larger they get. And that getting too big too fast is definitely a bad thing I was thinking about it - why not add a view mode displaying only the comments of the early adopters? On reddit, for example, it would be interesting to see only comments of users with accounts 5+ years old.
- mplewis 12y ago
  Gawker's network effectively does that by focusing on only Featured Comments when you scroll down and making you click through to the plebs.
- fivedogit 12y ago
  I thought about this idea -- only displaying comments from users with high ratings or whatever -- but decided it would break conversations. Users would see comments, but not some responses or worse, some responses without the original comment, etc.

frankacter 12y ago

>One of the problems with other commenting systems is what I call The Clean Slate Effect. If a troll is sucky on site A, then goes to site B, they start over with a clean slate and can continue being sucky. How is this different than any other 3rd party commenting system like Disqus or Facebook?

fivedogit 12y ago
So. Many. Reasons. Just give it a try and you'll see.

visarga 12y ago

> these sorts of systems get worse the larger they get. And that getting too big too fast is definitely a bad thing I was thinking about it - why not add a view mode displaying only the comments of the early adopters? On reddit, for example, it would be interesting to see only comments of users with accounts 5+ years old.

mplewis 12y ago
Gawker's network effectively does that by focusing on only Featured Comments when you scroll down and making you click through to the plebs.
fivedogit 12y ago
I thought about this idea -- only displaying comments from users with high ratings or whatever -- but decided it would break conversations. Users would see comments, but not some responses or worse, some responses without the original comment, etc.