Actually everyone should just try it out for a little while instead of instantly judging the change.
I agree with PG, HN started to have mob feel in the comments section.
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#152I actually expect that posts may become more extremely negative than they used to. At some point, you become sorry for a person with a highly negative comment; or at least I do. Sometimes I upvote comments that are negative because I think that the downvotes are unreasonable. Now there's no way for others to provide a check on the immoral downvoting behavior of others.
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I usually do development on my local machine, but for small things like this I use the server's repl.
Nice. I wondered why things were changing quickly but there were never any page load errors. I don't trust myself not to kill my app with a live REPL :)
I do it in a live production environment and it can often give you a nice adrenaline flush. I do occasionally fat-finger things, so I try to avoid it.
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"I just added that." This is great. So now I can see which of my comments are getting voted up/down and so have feedback for my writing, but I have to vote other comments up or down based on content (and author sometimes I guess).
Just curious... why author? Why not just content?
If I knew that someone were qualified to talk about whatever we're discussing, I'd be more inclined to upvote them.
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#156But 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...
I feel your pain. I don't think I like the new system that much. At least so far. I'm used to scanning comments as a way to determine which articles to read. Postings with a lot of comment action usually indicate something emotionally appealing. Once I go to the comments section, then I filter by score, only looking at comments above a certain threshold (depending on how much time I have). I usually try not to commen…
I don't look at the score to understand a comment, I look at the score to understand the community response to a comment. To me there is just less information now.
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#157I anticipate that one effect of this will be that there will be more threads simply saying "I agree" or "Good comment" since this will no longer be so visibly reflected by the voting.
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#158I notice that nobody here is playing devil's advocate, so allow me. What was wrong with the site beforehand? Sure the comments have a mob feel to them sometimes, but that's just something a social anything app has to deal with. Over all, I like the comments on HN much more than say reddit or digg by far. Plus, I've never seen a community that responds so well to criticism as this one does.
Overall I agree with you, but I think this will be an interesting experiment, I want to see what happens.
As do I. Like I said, I was playing devil's advocate. :-)
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Of course it's a game. But it should be a game that fosters insightful comments and interesting threads, not one-liner jokes and inflammatory outbursts.
I agree. I wonder if you could just have three buttons/widgets: insightful, funny, and troll. Then just click what you think of the article, and insightful articles rise to the top. Heck, you could even make it a user preference whether to sort insightful first, funny first, or troll first (why you'd want to do that I don't know, but some might) It would involve just one more graphic element than the current up/down…
or troll first (why you'd want to do that I don't know, but some might)
At least on slashdot, the "troll"s are sometimes, in their own way, funnier than the "funny"s (if only because of not involving overdone /. in-jokes).
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#160This is going to work wonders. imho, it will atleast 'confuse' people who upvote friends without reading the context, specially for all the 'voters' who upvote 'i love/hate my country' kind of comments.
This feature will be interesting.