I'm pretty sure upvoting a comment is seen as a means to notify someone on HN. Maybe it's only in my head but that's how I see it.
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN alert users in some manner to new replies?
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#62Add me to the camp that is happy there are no notifications.
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#65i think this feature is needed. Often times, an insightful reply to a question is asked (others want to see it too) but the OP just may not have noticed it.
so, maybe 8 hours later, if there is no response from OP for a reply made, a notification is sent? OP may choose to ignore of course.
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#66Honestly I’m glad it doesn’t. Reply notifications may increase engagement, but I’d argue they reduce the quality of discussion, since such notifications would encourage rapid back and forth arguments.
this question is posted 2-3 times a month. and this answer is written all the time. and it goes to the top. hn cycles
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#67If I see my karma go up, that usually tells me that someone may have replied to something I said. Otherwise, I'm glad there's no alert for new replies. Conversation should be intentional. If I'm gonna be reading what someone said in response to me, I better already have enough motivation to check back and see if someone replied. When I don't check back, it's probably because I've got something more important to focus…
I use a custom style sheet to hide my karma score (except on user profile page where I can go if I'm super curious). It's broke an unhealthy cycle I would subconsciously try to craft the perfect reply and get an addiction-inducing high from some big karma boost. Or big productivity-killing negative response.
Same here! Down to a T. I actually think the consideration to hide it came from the fact that everyone *else's* votes are hidden.
Incidentally, rather than a custom style sheet to hide the score, I have the entire top bar set to the karma color. This means I cannot see any of the actual links, and I have to really squint at the screen and hunt for them. Long-tail accessibility issues seem part of HN's brand, or something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#68I did a telegram bot for this at some point, but it ended up very annoying and I just abandoned the project. Code is here if you want it: https://github.com/golergka/hn-comment-bot
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just remember to check the comments in my profile page and see how much my past comments have been replied to.
I used to do that, but you can just click "threads".
Oh sweet. Thank you. Unfortunately that's not a thing in my mobile client of choice, but handy for when I'm on desktop.