This was clearly inspired by a previous MetaFilter / YouTube comment mashup: http://comments.thatsaspicymeatball.com/ http://comments.thatsaspicymeatball.com/

This was clearly inspired by a previous MetaFilter / YouTube comment mashup: http://comments.thatsaspicymeatball.com/ http://comments.thatsaspicymeatball.com/ There were two MetaTalk (backchannel about site-related stuff) threads about Lukas's rating experiment: I posted one when I discovered it: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/18264/Do-we-have-a-minute-to-spare http://metatalk.metafilter.com/18264/Do-we-have-a-minute-to-... There was a follow-up after he made this blog post with his conclusions: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/18275/Metafilter-comments-rated http://metatalk.metafilter.com/18275/Metafilter-comments-rat...