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Fixed. I didn't see the comment you mention, but that is exactly the sort of thing I meant about voting starting to have a mob feel.
by pg 17y ago
Fixed.
I didn't see the comment you mention, but that is exactly the sort of thing I meant about voting starting to have a mob feel.
- jrockway 17y agoIt was this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=840748 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=840748 Although I don't have any data, I think that if the same comment was posted today, it would end up with more points. If I see a comment with 80 upvotes, I usually let it stay there rather than bumping it to 81. One other comment; I find it hard to navigate my "threads" page now. I used to focus on highly-voted comments to improve and reply to; now that I don't know what other people like, I have nothing to go on. I guess spending less time on HN might not be a bad thing, however :) Edit: one more thing. I still have a reflex-like urge to click the upvote button when the author name says "pg". With no number, it is even harder to suppress the urge. So far I have managed, but I can't guarantee that I won't change my mind :)
- netsp 17y agoI was thinking something similar when I saw this change. I know I am affected by by the comments score when I vote, but I think it's more of a moderating effect. I might vote down a smart ass one line remark if it has lots of points, or vote up something that is so-so if it's been voted down. Interesting to experiment.
- peoplerock 17y agoI think it would be very informative to collect data on whether or not that sort of mob effect gets diminished by removing display of the comment-votes: will it keep "cute" one-line jabs from soaring to top of page? PS: please don't ask me how to quantify such data :)