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I think you can remove the word "by"
"10 points by ivankirigin" is actually quite misleading. It looks like "ivankirign" gave the comment 10 points. We are having the same problem on how to show it correctly on GraffitiGeo. We ended up using "by ivinkirigin, points: 10", which in my opinion is still not perfect. Any idea on this?
But now I cant quickly skim off information from a thread. There are 87 comments in this thread at this moment. I am not interested in reading 87 comments about this experiment. I am however very much interested in seeing what the top few most insightful comments in this thread are. That feedback is very important. Right now I am feeling blind as a bat...
That would balance the elimination of mob voting with being able to ascertain (historical) credibility.
Wow, this interferes with key elements of my system for voting/commenting on HN. Here are some things that don't work now: * If a comment is sitting at 1 or 0, I'll try to avoid downvoting it unless I really think the comment subtracts value from the site. * If a child is attracting more votes than the parent, and I think this is because the child commenter didn't comprehend what the parent was saying, I vote to leve…
My prediction: comment voting will drop precipitously.
Although that being said, I tend to gloss over the scores anyway for the most part...
PG: Will you be applying some metric to determine if this improves site feel? If so, what metric?
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In fact I will go as far as to say that the ideal interface would be one that let me specify what the ideal score of every comment should be and my vote should be counted as an upvote if its below that value and a downvote if its above that...
That would be a star rating system then. Supposedly they work worse.
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Voting patterns showed a lot of users voted to get a comment to what they felt was an appropriate score: they wouldn't up- or downvote something unless they felt its current score was too low or high respectively. But if comment scores aren't displayed, you won't need to anymore.
In fact I will go as far as to say that the ideal interface would be one that let me specify what the ideal score of every comment should be and my vote should be counted as an upvote if its below that value and a downvote if its above that...
PG: Will you be applying some metric to determine if this improves site feel? If so, what metric?
I think the two obvious metrics are volume of comment votes and average comment score. I don't know which way you would want those two to go though.
I believe pg has in the past just used "this seems better/worse" as a metric, but it's hard to say how noticeable any change from this will be.