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You know what would be another good sorting comparator? Conversationality. A comment that sparked a lot of conversation (has a lot of children) should be a goo

• csbrooks 17y ago
  Not sure about that. This would tend to promote flame wars, and (on reddit) pun threads.
• there 17y ago
  but only for a lot of second-level children, not children of one reply. reddit's stupid pun threads usually have one reply after another as a staircase instead of many replies to one quality comment.
• icefox 17y ago
  That isn't a very good sorting measure. It simply means you were the first one to comment. You can game Hacker News currently this way. If there is already comments in a topic, don't start a new thread, instead reply to the top thread no matter what they said. You will get more replies and more votes.
• signa11 17y ago
  i always liked gnus usage of scoring individual news articles by either subject/author etc etc. having that would be really nice. just allow folks to score whatever/whoever they feel like, rather than foisting your version of 'goodness' on others. make low scoring articles fade into the background...