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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by adevine »

MrMrtn wrote: post #167
dang wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The argument against that is that with the collapse button so close to the vote arrow, we would be guaranteed to get misvotes, especially on mobile. The undo vote feature would no doubt help with that some, but only so much.

To be honest I would rather have the vote arrow moved somewhere else. I'm often more interested in collapsing a comment thread than voting. I'm not sure if this is something only I care about though.

Why I agree with you, and would argue for putting the vote arrows somewhere else, is that voting should only happen after someone has fully read a comment and at least given it a second to think about it. It makes more sense for the collapse functionality to always be in the same place so you can do it somewhat "mindlessly", but for voting you specifically don't want to be able to do it mindlessly.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by bobwaycott »

danso wrote: post #195
MrMrtn wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be honest I would rather have the vote arrow moved somewhere else. I'm often more interested in collapsing a comment thread than voting. I'm not sure if this is something only I care about though.

It'd be hard to say what most users prefer. I would venture to guess that we're all conditioned to vote before collapsing comments simply because we've never had the option to collapse comments until today. So behavior preferences will change over time. However, I'll hypothesize that it's preferable (overall) to have more friction on collapsing comments. A lot of great discussion happens in response to even a mediocr…

> . . . forcing the user to take a few extra moments to skim the child-comments will increase the serendipitous discovery of these nested gems.

Excellent phrasing. As a fairly long-time user who lurks more than he comments, I can concur that much of the best conversation I've read and participated in happened to be such nested gems. Serendipitous, indeed.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by 2bluesc »

dharmon wrote: post #226
dharmon wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm at 495 and can't downvote. Quick, 5 people upvote me and I'll tell you if it kicks in.

OK, at exactly 501 you get a little down arrow (doesn't appear at 500). dang already confirmed it below, but at least I got to feel like a camgirl for 5 minutes. Thanks for playing!

We can all dream

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by daveguy »

These are awesome improvements. One change set, 1000% improved messaging. I think the only thing left that I wish I could do is click on a parent link from a given link (when you're in the middle of a long comment list and you want to see the specific post to which a message is responding).

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by davidsawyer »

spicyj wrote: post #52
trjordan wrote: post #39

Suggestion: Can you move the collapse button to the left of the username? One way I tend to use nested comment threads is reading all top comments, collapsing as I go. Great stuff, overall -- thanks!

That would certainly increase the number of accidental votes.

I feel like it would be worth the trade-off.
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