Tell HN: New features and a moderator

Post by sgt101 » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 9:57 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #224

sgt101 wrote: post #105

3 doesn't ring true - why should I care what anyone favorites?

You needn't! But we hope it will create an interesting new way to find excellent stuff on HN that one otherwise wouldn't have seen. So much content—both good and bad, of course, but much of it superb—streams through this site that no one can see it all. Not even those of us whose job it is to monitor it. Maybe this is just my jaded moderator perspective, but it sometimes feels like more attention gets paid to the bad…

Post by dredmorbius » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 10:01 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #155

Someone1234 wrote: post #106

I have a piece of feedback. The new collapse button is at the end of the comment. This means that the collapse button's position on the page changes based on username length and duration wording (hours Vs. minutes, etc). One nice thing about other websites which I won't name, is that you can read and collapse all of the top comments without having to "seek" the collapse button constantly. You can literally scroll and…

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.

Post by BozeWolf » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 10:03 PM UTC

ricree wrote: post #163

macintux wrote: post #117

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For me it was 500.

I'm not sure the number is constant. I think it scales with either the age or the prominence of the comment. I've seen threads where I was unable to downvote top tier comments, even though I could downvote their children.

Post by tedmiston » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 10:04 PM UTC

justinpombrio wrote: post #256

niftich wrote: post #219

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A few weeks ago I recently obtained the downvote ability at 500 karma.

I suspect you mean 501. I reached 500 a few weeks ago, and left it there for a while... it was such a nice, round number.

Post by jakobegger » Mon, Jul 11, 2016, 10:06 PM UTC

DKnoll3 wrote: post #297

dang wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is a subtle point and I was curious if someone would ask about it! Unvote links last for an hour. This is because the main use of voting data is to rank posts, and that's time sensitive. If we let people go back and unvote after hours have gone by (let alone years), that would be rewriting history, or counterfactually messing with it. Even an hour is arguably too long. Since the main purpose of this feature is t…

I was always under the impression that the reason you couldn't undo was purely to encourage putting thought into your votes, instead of clicking after the first sentence, getting through the rest of the post, and looking to take your upvote back. Guess I was wrong. I'd say 30 seconds should be enough, with this thought in mind =]