KajMagnus

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   by KajMagnus 14y ago

   This seems quiet advanced and well thought through. And Quora works really well as far as I've seen. — I've also been thinking about letting the initial position of an answer depend on who wrote it.
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   by KajMagnus 14y ago

   > the 95% confidence interval is much wider for them If you change this to an 80% confidence interval, it'd become narrower and might actually somewhat favor new comments, with only a few votes (upvotes)? So this might be configurable?
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   by KajMagnus 14y ago

   I think that's a good idea that could be implemented quickly, and perhaps it's good enough :-) I also think it's easier to calibrate [an algorithm that estimates which comments people have read], than to calibrate [how much more importance
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   by KajMagnus 14y ago

   I'm actually using the algorithm that Evan Miller writes about (i.e. the lower bound of a binomial proportion confidence interval), in the discussion system that powers the demo in the linked article. I'm using the Agresti-Coull interval,
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   by KajMagnus 14y ago

   Interesting :-) I didn't know about his article, but nevertheless that's roughly how I've currently implemented the sorting algorithm in the discussion system that powers http://www.debiki.com/demo/-71cs1-demo-page-1 — I'm using the simp
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   by KajMagnus 14y ago

   How strong that effect is, depends on how you implement the algorithm. You don't have to assume a person has read all ancestors, just because he votes on a comment. — If you assume s/he has read only the closest 3 ancestors (which I think
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   by KajMagnus 14y ago

   Someone else also suggested disabling upvotes for comment no. 1. I replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5430753 I'd guess people would eventually find the button anyway, even if it's grayed out? I mean, they know where it's
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   by KajMagnus 14y ago

   You would divide by attention, not multiply :-) It could perhaps be done like so: `(upvotes - downvotes) / attention` (where attention = an estimate of the number of people who read the comment and voted on something )
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   by KajMagnus 14y ago

   I'm having a hard time coming up with a beautiful intuitive layout with 2 columns — I think most blogs would look somewhat odd if the comment field was split in 2 columns? And if you don't use columns, but show the most recent comment in a
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    by KajMagnus 14y ago

    I agree with this. The algorithm doesn't need to be exactly correct, always. It only needs to work well on the whole, given data on many visitors.
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    by KajMagnus 14y ago

    But this would still result in the topmost comments getting most upvotes — all topmost comments except for number 1? Now I'm oversimplifying, but the effect would be that comment 1 and 2 swapped place over and over again. Or the first N + 1
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    by KajMagnus 14y ago

    > """I think this is a bad idea.""" I think the issues you mention can be addressed. I've outlined how, below: 1: > """If you upvote a comment as interesting and the not the ones leading up to it, then you are punishing that comment
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    How to solve the problem that the topmost comments get all upvotes(debiki.com)

    231 points by KajMagnus 14y ago|125 comments
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    A Method to Fight Software Patents and Make More Money(debiki.com)

    1 points by KajMagnus 14y ago|0 comments
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    Show HN: Forum Software for the Future(debiki.com)

    1 points by KajMagnus 14y ago|0 comments
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    by KajMagnus 14y ago

    Yes horizontal scrolling would break the layout of many blogs and websites — I think this is somewhat niched software. Making people understand that they can dragscroll rightwards with the mouse is a bit tricky indeed. Right now I'm thinkin
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    by KajMagnus 14y ago

    Hi walnut-tree, thanks for your feedback! Here are some thoughts on the things you mentioned: - It's currently not possible to import comments. The largest page I've built "manually", is 200 comments; it'd be interesting to import a 300
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    by KajMagnus 14y ago

    Thanks for your feedback! What's the reason that having each new initial comment go horizontally doesn't seem to work well? If you have time, I'd be interested in knowing what things you think are interesting improvements? And about other t
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    by KajMagnus 14y ago

    Hi hackers I'm the link poster. I'm building a better (I hope) discussion system for blogs and forums, and perhaps (in the future) also for sites like Hacker News. Here is the homepage: www.debiki.com Here are possible future features: (so
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    Show HN: A better discussion system. For blogs, forums, perhaps sites like HN.(debiki.com)

    5 points by KajMagnus 14y ago|7 comments