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Some names of people confirmed to be idiots from their comments pop out. I wish I could just hide them.

• mahmud 17y ago
  Guilty as charged, Ivan! :-D
• jfager 17y ago
  http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55745 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55745
  • ivankirigin 17y ago
    awesome. Installed
• run4yourlives 17y ago
  That's an interesting stance. If a user "respected" enough to get into the top 100 is saying things that you don't want to read, there are only two real possibilities: 1. The community (or a large sub-section)is full of idiots. 2. You are the "idiot". (quotes for a reason - I'm not calling you an idiot.) 2. Can be clarified as: perhaps this is a message you need to hear/are not understanding. I always read these comments extra, in the view of bettering myself. I find it interesting that your response is to ignore them. Why?
  • ivankirigin 17y ago
    Trolls should be ignored. Generally, people who consistently spew inflammatory and poorly reasoned garbage rarely yield edifying conversation. I'd rather not waste my time.
    • run4yourlives 17y ago
      By that definition though, those people wouldn't be in the top 100 would they? Regardless, don't you as a member of the community have the responsibility to down-mod trolls? By simply ignoring them, you don't alter the S to N ratio any...
      • ivankirigin 17y ago
        Stupid people that post a lot will get in the top 100. That's exactly who I'm talking about. They aren't explicitly trolls, just de facto.
        • pg 17y ago
          I wonder if the leaderboard should be ranked by karma x average comment score.
          • riffer 17y ago
            That makes sense; put differently it would be roughly karma^2/comments^1 And right now the settings are karma^1/comments^0 To generalize, one way or the other you have karma^x/comments^y which looks strikingly similar to points^x/time^y Why not tinker with different variations until you get a couple of (probably non-integer) exponents that generate a leaderboard you think best represents the ideal character of the site, the same way you tinker with time gravity to alter the frontpage and comment pages?
          • ivankirigin 17y ago
            That would heavily weight against simple comments, which might be a good thing. It might be better to hurt the leaders based on the ratio of <=0 comments.
          • staunch 17y ago
            I don't think it's a bad idea to have more than one table on the leaderboard. Having one "overall" table is nice, but having a bunch more stats would be fun.
            • pg 17y ago
              Ok, the leaders page now shows both total karma and the average for recent comments.
              • run4yourlives 17y ago