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Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#421

Post by makecheck » Tue, Nov 03, 2009, 6:11 PM UTC

Subtract 1 karma from yourself each time up-vote or down-vote is used; this effectively turns karma into "money" that can be spent on maintaining good discussion and high quality submissions.

This would make people think twice before down-voting. It would also reduce "knee-jerk" up-votes, as people would be more likely to reserve up-votes for things that truly deserve it.

It would also mean that long-time users will naturally do more of the moderation, as they have lots of points and may not be as afraid to use them.

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#422

Post by dctoedt » Thu, Nov 05, 2009, 3:43 PM UTC

Tag and vote for articles as suggested founder reading - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923920

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#423

Post by makecheck » Sun, Nov 08, 2009, 8:32 PM UTC

Automatically up-vote parent comments based on the number of replies in a thread that they produce.

Sometimes, when a big discussion forms, comments deep in the thread gain 10 or more points while the original parent has just 1 or 2 points. The parent comment is usually "worthy" of the same points, but it's as if people forget to up-vote the parent. The parent should share in the karma for spawning interesting discussions.

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#424

Post by edw519 » Sun, Nov 08, 2009, 11:49 PM UTC

Add 2 more columns to the leader board:

1. date/time or "minutes ago" of last comment

2. first 40 characters of that comment...

Most of the people I like to follow are already on the leader board. It sure would be nice to know who's on-line right now and what they're talking about without having to drill down 20 times.

Possible additional benefits of this enhancement:

1. People may take an extra moment or two to examine their comment's quality if they knew it would shortly be on a "master" page for all to see.

2. An additional route for people to join a conversation they're interested in.

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#425

Post by kirubakaran » Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 8:17 PM UTC

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=936109

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#426

Post by dhimes » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 1:52 PM UTC

I'd like an explanation of what all the things on your profile page do. I think it's mostly covered, but what does "delay" do? Measured in seconds, minutes, or what? Even just a mouse-over would help.

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#427

Post by robotron » Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 11:55 PM UTC

Not a feature, but a bug. Trying to merge my Facebook account and my Hacker News account results in "Unknown" during the merge, which never completes.

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#428

Post by jonsen » Wed, Nov 25, 2009, 2:57 PM UTC

Somewhere (obvious) to report malfunctions.

My upvotes have stopped working. Up arrow goes away and points increment, but on refresh before-points are back?! Consistently on comments, not always on submissions. (Downvotes not used yet :-) Safari 4.0.4, OS X

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#429

Post by _urga » Thu, Nov 26, 2009, 2:13 PM UTC

Let me see all articles that receive more than [threshold] votes.

Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

#430

Post by rythie » Mon, Dec 14, 2009, 6:28 PM UTC

I'd like a link to my submissions on the top navigation bar (instead of under my profile) or it should be combined with threads