Demetrification: Removing the numbers of likes and retweets from public view
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#2> 1.5K claps
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#3This is just throwing the baby out with the bathwater - I'll have even less idea why this or that comment is at the top of the feed, it will be just as gameable for the committed bad actors, and I won't be able to get a quick estimate of whether a social media post is worth engaging with or a crowd has already gathered and established some rough consensus about it.
It's good to keep experimenting with the development of better UIs though - seems to be plenty of demand for that on Twitter today as people react coolly to their new UI.
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#4This seems like a nice improvement.
I don't think the user's experience as a 'nobody' is quite comparable to as a celebrity. I'd waste much more of my time worrying about social media metrics if I got more attention.
Though I also hope it doesn't exasperate competition anxiety, if people just presume those they're competing with are more popular than they are. (My understanding is Instagram tends to be very unhealthy for adolescents).
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#6This is so stupid and pointless, all because a few people that over-obsess about essentially inconsequential numbers don't understand how rash generalization is a logical fallacy, so they assume their experiences must be everyone else's experiences.
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#7Related to this, I remember when HN was showing the amount of upvotes on comments (like it does on posts).
I still miss it, because quickly scanning a very thick amount of content, I'd like to know where I should spend time. I do it with posts (and the list /best is great if you're short on time).
The ordering still supposedly shows us the very recent followed by the 'solid comments', but there is 0 information about how 'solid' that comment is by consensus.
That being said, my favourite part of HN is the [-], so when I'm done with someone's opinion and their 300 responses, I can just skip it.
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#8Related to this, I remember when HN was showing the amount of upvotes on comments (like it does on posts). I still miss it, because quickly scanning a very thick amount of content, I'd like to know where I should spend time. I do it with posts (and the list /best is great if you're short on time). The ordering still supposedly shows us the very recent followed by the 'solid comments', but there is 0 information about…
Funny thing: I still don't know what [-] means, there are no tooltips or any other hints so I prefer not to click it.
Re: Demetrification: Removing the numbers of likes and retweets from public view
#9Related to this, I remember when HN was showing the amount of upvotes on comments (like it does on posts). I still miss it, because quickly scanning a very thick amount of content, I'd like to know where I should spend time. I do it with posts (and the list /best is great if you're short on time). The ordering still supposedly shows us the very recent followed by the 'solid comments', but there is 0 information about…
Funny thing: I still don't know what [-] means, there are no tooltips or any other hints so I prefer not to click it.
It's just a simple collapse thread feature.
Re: Demetrification: Removing the numbers of likes and retweets from public view
#10Related to this, I remember when HN was showing the amount of upvotes on comments (like it does on posts). I still miss it, because quickly scanning a very thick amount of content, I'd like to know where I should spend time. I do it with posts (and the list /best is great if you're short on time). The ordering still supposedly shows us the very recent followed by the 'solid comments', but there is 0 information about…
Funny thing: I still don't know what [-] means, there are no tooltips or any other hints so I prefer not to click it.
[-] just hides that branch of the comment tree so that you can ignore it if you want to focus on reading other branches.