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I use /newest to find and upvote new stuff all the time, are my votes being silently ignored?
> Downvoted comments (i.e. with a score This desaturation is the most annoying misfeature of Hacker News IMO, it makes reading comments very hard and negates the "bandwagoning prevention" that not showing a visible score has (which is a good idea). I'd rather judge for myself a comment's worth than have it faded out for me. (yes there are workarounds, like using Stylus to override the CSS, but my comment is against t…
It's not for you, it's a feedback for the commenter. And making your comment unpleasant for others adds an emotional component into the feedback, which is quite effective.
> Downvoted comments (i.e. with a score This desaturation is the most annoying misfeature of Hacker News IMO, it makes reading comments very hard and negates the "bandwagoning prevention" that not showing a visible score has (which is a good idea). I'd rather judge for myself a comment's worth than have it faded out for me. (yes there are workarounds, like using Stylus to override the CSS, but my comment is against t…
>I'd rather judge for myself a comment's worth than have it faded out for me. It's not for you, it's a feedback for the commenter. And making your comment unpleasant for others adds an emotional component into the feedback, which is quite effective.
Let me add some plots to the situation: https://imgur.com/a/KRzcQcU
Quite a range (I've always been happy with orange).
Comment collapsing is a useful feature. The problem with giving the largest weight to the most upvoted comment is it also gives a large weight to all replies (unless they're heavily downvoted). It's useful to be able to skip those replies once they get less interesting. However, this does lead to yo-yoing: reading comments downwards, going back up to find the right collapse button then reading down again. It'd be use…
> Downvoted comments (i.e. with a score This desaturation is the most annoying misfeature of Hacker News IMO, it makes reading comments very hard and negates the "bandwagoning prevention" that not showing a visible score has (which is a good idea). I'd rather judge for myself a comment's worth than have it faded out for me. (yes there are workarounds, like using Stylus to override the CSS, but my comment is against t…
>I'd rather judge for myself a comment's worth than have it faded out for me. It's not for you, it's a feedback for the commenter. And making your comment unpleasant for others adds an emotional component into the feedback, which is quite effective.
"One popular "trick" for obfuscating voting manipulation on Hacker News is to link to the Hacker News's /newest page of new submissions (instead of a direct link which would otherwise make voting manipulation obvious), and asking friends to upvote the submission from that page. This trick doesn't actually work." I use /newest to find and upvote new stuff all the time, are my votes being silently ignored?
https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors is kind of fascinating (and ridiculous - why does it exist?). Let me add some plots to the situation: https://imgur.com/a/KRzcQcU Quite a range (I've always been happy with orange).
See also https://web.archive.org/web/20080115223854/http://ycombinato....
Does anyone know if 50 was the original karma limit for downvoting? I'm asking because I've always thought it was 50 and was surprised I was wrong by a factor of 10 :-).
It's a great list, I've kept the link from the last time [0] it was posted. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16437973