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I'm experimenting with not displaying comment scores. The orange dot is an alternate way to help users find high-scoring comments. More details here: http://n
by pg 17y ago
I'm experimenting with not displaying comment scores. The orange dot is an alternate way to help users find high-scoring comments. More details here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979
- lsb 17y agoPerhaps allow comment score over a certain karma and/or age, just like the ability to change topcolor and downvote?
- reedlaw 17y agoHere's the reference： I've been experimenting with various ways of indicating high scoring comments. At the moment I use an orange dot after the time. At one point I tried giving all comments initial dots, and turned them red when the comment had a high score.
- yters 17y agoI like the idea. The dot is basically shorthand for what we use the score for, minus a kind of "attractor" effect whereby two high scores, one higher than the other, skews my mind one way. Anyways, have definitely noticed a distinct difference in how I read thread. Instead of skimming scores, I now skim text.
- apotheon 17y agoI'm not exactly sure I understand what you're saying. Are you saying . . . 1. You used to pay more attention to scores than to text? (i.e., "I used to skim the score to see if I wanted to read the comment, but now I skim the text.") 2. You used to pay more attention to text than you do now? (i.e., "I used to skim scores, then read text more carefully, but now I just skim text and move on.") 3. Something else entirely?
- j_baker 17y agoMight I suggest starting an additional thread whenever a change like this happens? There's a certain point beyond which I quit reading comments in a single thread. If I saw a thread on the front page that said something like "we're using orange dots to keep track of scores", I'd have been a lot less confused.
- Semiapies 17y agoI don't really see the point of taking away the rating information displayed as numeric scores, then adding back display of some of that information as an orange dot. If the idea is to not show the the information the scores represent, then don't show it, even abstracted as little dots. If we do want the information, just show the scores.