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Given the fact that people get points for their answers, there is already bias towards positive and encouraging comments in hacker news. Notice how the comments
by zk00006 12y ago
Given the fact that people get points for their answers, there is already bias towards positive and encouraging comments in hacker news. Notice how the comments start positive and later slowly add the information just to be "safe". Of course not in all cases. From my experience: if I give shallow positive comment I am more likely to get positive points, but strict negative and often deeper comment is down voted. This rule can further increase this bias.
- tptacek 12y agoThat sounds like a good thing.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoIt may sound like it on the surface, but I don't think it is a good thing in the long run. There's a fine line between making a community and making a herd. Upvoting / downvoting encourages both, the problem being trying to have enough to encourage the first without enough of the second to lose the community you've built.