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Specifically, I'd love to see whose comments are the most upvoted, without having their total karma and average karma skewed by getting to the front page.
It's not uncommon for a front page article to get 100+ points, but it's rare for a comment to get 100+ points.
I do not know what I should flag. Should I flag things that have terrible titles?
"10 articles every programmer should read" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743952
Or should I flag the obvious (but rare) off topic spam that makes it through the filters?
I believe HN users want to reduce mod-work, and that they would be happy with slightly increased friction on flagging.
[flag - should not be on HN]
[flag - HN Worthy but terrible title]
[flag - train wreck comments]
I believe this would increase flagging. I suspect it would make modding easier but I don't know and maybe I'm talking nonsense.
Whatever the timeout is these days, it is simply not enough. Not for editing posts on a phone on a bus, which should be a core use case in 2014.
I seem to see this frequently. It is jarring 100% if the time. I can see a rational for it maybe 10% of the time.
I have tested this fiddle and found it to work in both Chrome and Firefox: http://jsfiddle.net/LRaJj/
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Alternatively, and perhaps even better, use unicode ▲ as up arrow instead of gif, as suggested earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4238956
After submitting a bunch of links, some of them making a front page, I noticed that there is a fairly strong effect of social proof.
People check /newest, see that some post already has 1 or 2 upvotes, check it instead of some without any upvotes (someone upvoted, might be good!). The upvoted one gets even more upvotes (because more people are reading it), and it's on the homepage.
A bunch of my submissions made the homepage and from what I've noticed, the threshold is about 7-10 upvotes in the first hour. So can we fairly say that a dozen of people decide what's on the homepage? Maybe.
While the sample size is really really small, 8 of 9 links I submitted and got more than 4 upvotes, made the front page. But I guess with a greater sample size, the general assumption would still hold true.
The obvious disadvantage of hiding score is that it's harder to tell what is worth attention (especially during peak hours when there is a new submission every minute), but maybe it would help to bring more good content to the front page (as opposed to content that a dozen of people thought is good).