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91.
by pg 13y ago
Mostly that I haven't implemented it yet.
92.
by pg 13y ago
I increased the limit to 5.
93.
by pg 13y ago
Of course. We'd be pretty stupid not to revert something that wasn't working. Plus in any case if you tweak parameters like the number of endorsements a comment needs and how much karma you need to endorse, you can approach curr
94.
by pg 13y ago
In the line of gray text beginning with your username at the top of your comment.
95.
by pg 13y ago
Pending comments aren't greyed out. They just have [pending] prepended to them. So I don't think there will be a lot to figure out.
96.
by pg 13y ago
I suggest another option: wait to see what it's like.
97.
by pg 13y ago
I don't think people will have to wait so much they'll notice, but we'll see.
98.
by pg 13y ago
That doesn't have to be common for the system to work. I'm just explaining why they're separate.
99.
by pg 13y ago
Right now it almost always means two, because I'm starting with the simplest possible implementation, but there might be optimizations in the future. E.g. the threshold could vary with how active a thread was, or based on the results
100.
by pg 13y ago
Yes. It should be possible to endorse something without agreeing with it.
101.
by pg 13y ago
If a comment isn't seen by many users with over 1000 karma then it isn't seen by many users period, and thus doesn't have much influence anyway.
102.
by pg 13y ago
Let's see how much of a problem there is first. I wanted to start with the simplest possible thing. If it breaks in some cases I'll add stuff to fix those.
103.
by pg 13y ago
This was all the code it took: (newsop pending () (pending-page user)) (newscache pending-page user 60 (listpage user (msec) comments* [if (and (cansee user _) _!pending) _] "pending" "Pending Comment
104.
by pg 13y ago
Comments don't have to be brilliant. All they have to be is not stupid or mean.
105.
by pg 13y ago
That's what the delete link does.
106.
by pg 13y ago
It's only an issue if it takes a long time for comments to get endorsed, which we don't know yet. But if that is a problem it's easy to make the restriction per thread. I just wrote the simplest thing first.
107.
by pg 13y ago
I haven't implemented this yet but it would not be too hard.
108.
by pg 13y ago
It is, actually. Comments by users with over 10k karma go live immediately.
109.
by pg 13y ago
People who can see pending comments (= those who can endorse them) will always be able to see them. They just won't be endorsable after a day.
110.
by pg 13y ago
It wouldn't limit criticism of YC. A comment only needs a few people to endorse it to become visible. To suppress comments on any specific topic would require all the users with over 1000 karma to agree not to endorse them, which is
111.
by pg 13y ago
Oops, yes, another thing I overlooked.
112.
by pg 13y ago
If it is it's pretty reversible as deathknells go. (= pend-on* nil)
113.
by pg 13y ago
It's orthogonal.
114.
by pg 13y ago
Separate. Endorsing just means you think a comment is substantial, not that you agree with it.
115.
by pg 13y ago
No, that's not intended. If it happens we'll fix it.
116.
by pg 13y ago
What I was doing before: writing essays and software.
117.
by pg 13y ago
No one can reply to a pending comment, or vote on it, or see it in most cases.
118.
by pg 13y ago
Yes, deletion is possible for a pending comment as long as it's pending.
119.
by pg 13y ago
Don't worry, they can.
120.
by pg 13y ago
That is exactly what happens.

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