Um. What does :+1: mean when applied to an issue? "I like this bug"?!
You want the contributers to focus on this issue.
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
That idea works in theory, but in practice it makes comments a popularity contest. Eventually, people with minority opinions figure out that their ideas are unpopular and leave or stop commenting. The end result is monoculture. A great illustration of this phenomenon is Reddit's politics subreddit. In theory, it is a place to discuss American politics. In practice, its discussion is almost entirely centered around a…
I don't think HN is monocultural, at least to a pathological extent. There's quite a bit of debate here. The overwhelming majority of grayed out comments are baseless, off-topic, or unnecessarily inflammatory, from my perspective. I think that's because there's a norm to agree with an upvote, disagree with a non-vote, and reserve downvotes for unproductive commentary. People seem to upvote unfairly gray comments rega…
I don't think it is either, but if we began downvoting for mere disagreement as the person that I responded to advocated, then I think it would.
Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
That idea works in theory, but in practice it makes comments a popularity contest. Eventually, people with minority opinions figure out that their ideas are unpopular and leave or stop commenting. The end result is monoculture. A great illustration of this phenomenon is Reddit's politics subreddit. In theory, it is a place to discuss American politics. In practice, its discussion is almost entirely centered around a…
I don't think HN is monocultural, at least to a pathological extent. There's quite a bit of debate here. The overwhelming majority of grayed out comments are baseless, off-topic, or unnecessarily inflammatory, from my perspective. I think that's because there's a norm to agree with an upvote, disagree with a non-vote, and reserve downvotes for unproductive commentary. People seem to upvote unfairly gray comments rega…
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Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
#224How about a stop (hand palm) [1] instead of -1?
Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
This comment is basically a down vote of github's down vote. Comments should be the down vote, because someone needs to explain why a suggestion, answer, code change, submission, etc... is not a good option. If that comment (down vote) is a good idea, it will then be up voted.
But there could already be a reasonable explanation for -1 vote in the thread. Are you suggesting to repeat it or write "agree with @foobar on his comment"? That's more noise.
You upvote the negative comment.
Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know, "+1" usually has only one meaning: Nonsense. - Agreement: "I agree with whatever you're saying" - Contributory : "I don't agree with what you're saying, but you elaborated your point *very* well and contributed to the discussion" - Mercy: "I don't agree with what you're saying, but the hivemind punished you for no good reason, have an upvote" - Popularity: "I like you and will +1 anything you write" - Thank…
So, how about tagging individual comments and then voting for the tags?
I like this idea, even having preset tags ala slashdot.
Always maintained that this would make Reddit a much nicer place. Implement the vote tags, and then give people the ability to sort by votes, filtering out votes for disagreement.
Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
#227The great thing about adding emoji Reactions to all our social media posts is that now AIs can finally learn human emotion. I'm sure Google is already training theirs on how different keywords make people feel.
Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Commenting should be how people down vote. You should have to explain why it's not a good idea. Then if others agree with you, your comment will get up voted. Just as my comment is a downvote of github's downvote.
The context of this feature is that users were using comments to react without providing substance. The primary motivation is to reduce the visual clutter of non-substantive comments. While we can agree about what users should do, users not behaving as we think they should is the whole point here. Removing the -1 reaction won't encourage people to articulate their concerns. Nor will it discourage people from writing…
What users wanted was a way to gauge what features are more important, so maintainers could prioritize the important issues to the community. All asked for was to be able to up vote _issues_, and be able to sort. [1]
Instead we got reactions, and it completely missed the mark. They've made it easier to be passive aggressive. Also it lingers on your post, instead of having the unconstructive comment stand on it's own. How does one respond to a down vote, make another comment saying "... hmm?"? It's weird.
Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think HN is monocultural, at least to a pathological extent. There's quite a bit of debate here. The overwhelming majority of grayed out comments are baseless, off-topic, or unnecessarily inflammatory, from my perspective. I think that's because there's a norm to agree with an upvote, disagree with a non-vote, and reserve downvotes for unproductive commentary. People seem to upvote unfairly gray comments rega…
I don't think it is either, but if we began downvoting for mere disagreement as the person that I responded to advocated, then I think it would.
>if we began downvoting for mere disagreement as the person that I responded to advocated
Downvote for disagreement has been on HN for longer than you've had your account.
Re: Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think HN is monocultural, at least to a pathological extent. There's quite a bit of debate here. The overwhelming majority of grayed out comments are baseless, off-topic, or unnecessarily inflammatory, from my perspective. I think that's because there's a norm to agree with an upvote, disagree with a non-vote, and reserve downvotes for unproductive commentary. People seem to upvote unfairly gray comments rega…
I don't think it is either, but if we began downvoting for mere disagreement as the person that I responded to advocated, then I think it would.
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