Experiment: No Comment Scores • Hacker News Board

Re: Experiment: No Comment Scores

#41

Post by plinkplonk » Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 5:10 AM UTC

Weird suggestion: now hide the contributor too, avoiding the "vote pg up anyway"category of upvotes.

Then there's just a list of comments and one can vote them up or down on the content of the comment. Ok I did say it was weird.

EDIT: Some great counterpoints below. I agree with them. This is a bad idea.

Re: Experiment: No Comment Scores

#42

Post by huhtenberg » Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 5:10 AM UTC

Why not hide the usernames as well then and let the comments be judged purely based on their content ?

Re: Experiment: No Comment Scores

#43

Post by plinkplonk » Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 5:12 AM UTC

Interestingly enough, comments voted below zero still show up as gray. Helps to decide whether to upvote an "unjustly downvoted" comment.

Re: Experiment: No Comment Scores

#44

Post by soundsop » Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 5:12 AM UTC

If this improves the site, should it be applied to submission scores too? Showing submission scores can create the same sort of mob mentality in voting. The only potential downside that I see is people voting less often.

Re: Experiment: No Comment Scores

#45

Post by ivankirigin » Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 5:12 AM UTC

I think you can remove the word "by"

Re: Experiment: No Comment Scores

#46

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 5:12 AM UTC

plinkplonk wrote: post #23

patio11 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not alone in the world! And to register this, I clicked the up arrow next to the comment above me, but it redirected me to a blank page. (Chrome, Windows Vista.)

same here (FireFox 3.5.3, Ubuntu Jaunty) EDIT: Fixed. Wow that was fast!

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Re: Experiment: No Comment Scores

#47

Post by plinkplonk » Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 5:13 AM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #46

plinkplonk wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

same here (FireFox 3.5.3, Ubuntu Jaunty) EDIT: Fixed. Wow that was fast!

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"arc ftw"

REPL ftw?

Re: Experiment: No Comment Scores

#48

Post by shaunxcode » Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 5:15 AM UTC

Will comments still change tone til they fade to nothing as they are down voted?

Re: Experiment: No Comment Scores

#49

Post by jamesbritt » Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 5:15 AM UTC

Interesting. I still see some comments a light gray.

Also, like some others , I like know if something I've posted was particularly liked (or not).

And I've been skimming pages looking for the high-karma comments to try to dig out what are likely to be the most worthwhile comments. I suppose there's some feedback effect in place there, as popular comments simply get more attention (and so likely garner more up-votes votes), but there's pragmatic value in having a metric to selectively peruse a post with so much to read. (And, no, ZapRead isn't the answer :) )

Re: Experiment: No Comment Scores

#50

Post by pg » Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 5:15 AM UTC

tc wrote: post #40

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…

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.