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One PLUS of karma scores next to comments is that I know when to stop reading :) If my personal interest + the comment score < arbitrary threshold, i quit
by alexgartrell 17y ago
One PLUS of karma scores next to comments is that I know when to stop reading :)
If my personal interest + the comment score < arbitrary threshold, i quit
- j_baker 17y agoYou know, if there's one thing programmers should appreciate, it's making it easy to see which information you don't want to read.
- tumult 17y agoA simple number next to a post doesn't necessarily tell you much about whether or not you want to read it.
- kingnothing 17y agoSure it does. This is a community of individuals who share common interests. If the community values a particular comment, there's a high probability that I'm going to find value in it as well because of those shared interests.
- camccann 17y agoAnd conversely, if I consistently find that the community values comments that I think are junk, I'm probably going to eventually leave the community (which is why I'm here, and not on certain other sites).
- tumult 17y agoYou don't have to be part of the community to sign up for an account and start voting stuff up.
- kingnothing 17y agoI think you're implicitly part of the community once you sign up.