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You are also forgetting your groupies . People will upvote your post because its you and not due to its content. tptacek has mentioned this in the past, and I personally suffer from it.
> also forgetting your groupies. ... tptacek has mentioned I never would have guessed. I wonder if this thread could be turned into a parody of the parody?
The usernames made me chuckle, my favorite is "DefaultSearchIsWikipedia". Also, you forgot at least one archetype: the enthusiastic rant from an oblivious hell-banned poster.
vectorpush - you have been banned. No one can see your comment. ;)
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/386/
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I'm curious what you came up with. I used to work on Google Moderator, which was a project created to solve this problem for non-threaded discussion (which is even worse), and we had some neat solutions. We displayed comments to users to be voted on, and ended up using a variant of wilson confidence intervals not just to rank, but to figure out which comments we should display to users to be voted on.
where i ended up was, it cannot be solved within a single view. there needs to be some form of split side-by-side view for the discussion, each prioritizing replies differently - by freshness, votes, weight or other metrics. another idea was to create a heat-map based on reply velocity to give a third dimension to the whole thing. replies need "simmer" time at the top to aggregate enough votes. if there is one huge r…
Also, while this may be a problem here, HN still has the best comment sorting system I've seen (but not measured). Comments have time to stay at the top and simmer down and if they are good they gain enough momentum. The only time this seems to be come a problem is when you get to a really popular thread after hours/days of discussion. Then you cannot get a word in edgewise.
An alternative solution could be that for every comment you make, you give up a bit of karma and you gain it back through comment upvotes (but not article postings). That way people will watch what they say. This may give some positive feedback to posters that harvest huge amounts of karma, but it will also prevent bad comments. On top of that, you could make your post stick up top longer by paying a blood price: for every 50 points of karma you get another minute guaranteed at the top of your discussion thread, or some such. Or just free market FTW: the person that bids the highest amount wins the top spot for that many minutes.
Nice article.
I disagree with the author. This isn't exactly a parody thread. A parody is "an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work" [1]. For one thing, I would hardly call Hacker News comments "original work", and a simple creation like this hardly captures the full scope and breadth of comments on here. Furthermore, I'm not really sure why this belongs on HN, because it's not very technical, a…
No, OP is correct. * You omitted that HN is also a place to talk meta. * You misunderstand that a parody is not supposed to capture the full scope of something. * It was funny to read, that's all that matters.
I think a parody of something is one of the best ways to draw insight, and in my opinion I'm kinda happy that this is what the parody of HN is: links to wikipedia/cited sources, debates about whether or not an article was correct, nitpicks and views from different positions/experiences, and the off hand XKCD comic. Probably much more civil than a parody of a slashdot/reddit/4chan post would be.