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They probably wouldn't change much if the commenter had a long history to be averaged in. You'd want to look at the delta of the delta (2nd order stats) to see if any noticeable effect was occurring.
IIRC averages are calculated over a set of your most recent posts - so it can go up or down quite quickly depending on your current comment quality.
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They probably wouldn't change much if the commenter had a long history to be averaged in. You'd want to look at the delta of the delta (2nd order stats) to see if any noticeable effect was occurring.
IIRC averages are calculated over a set of your most recent posts - so it can go up or down quite quickly depending on your current comment quality.
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Yeah, but they need to make votes non permanent. It's a crapshoot if you'll hit the up or down arrow on a mobile device or iPad when you try to rate stuff.
I can see why they are permanent; it makes your votes feel like they mean something. But please, can we at least get an allotted number of "vote revokes" per week or something? I agree, it's too easy to misclick on an arrow on a touchscreen, and there's nothing that can be done.
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I can see why they are permanent; it makes your votes feel like they mean something. But please, can we at least get an allotted number of "vote revokes" per week or something? I agree, it's too easy to misclick on an arrow on a touchscreen, and there's nothing that can be done.
Better & simpler solution: Bigger buttons on touchscreen devices, preventing mis-clicks in the first place
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You can check by looking at the average comment scores on http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders (the second column). They haven't changed much as far as I can tell.
What is your average comment score? Any exception for your account? I don't think there needs to be one, just curious.
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What is your average comment score? Any exception for your account? I don't think there needs to be one, just curious.
10.2 as of now. No, the ranking algorithm treats every account the same.
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The problem with orange users was that it divided the community into two camps. This doesn't have the same issue.
Closer to four -- "had orange" and "wanted orange" were independent booleans.
With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they’d snort “We’ll have nothing to do with the Plain-Belly sort!”
And, whenever they met some, when they were out walking, They’d hike right on past them without even talking.
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Yeah, but they need to make votes non permanent. It's a crapshoot if you'll hit the up or down arrow on a mobile device or iPad when you try to rate stuff.
Here's what it looks like in the iPhone app I built: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4595/hn-vote.png You can see a demo video of the app here: http://michaelgrinich.com/hackernews/
Thanks very much. I don't think it's really HN's features or lack of them is the attraction for most users though, but the quality of the submissions and comments. So thank you guys. Ironically I've been thinking of adding some variant of following as a way to deal with the increasing volume of comments. I just haven't had time to yet. I did recently (about 3 weeks ago) tweak the algorithm for ranking comments, and t…
