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How do you beat the "tyranny of the reply"? Automatic karma deductions for 3rd tier replies? Detachment + quoting after the 2nd tier? Positioning based on
by greenmountin 10y ago
How do you beat the "tyranny of the reply"?
Automatic karma deductions for 3rd tier replies?
Detachment + quoting after the 2nd tier?
Positioning based on the cumulative karma of the whole tree?
Automatic collapse of higher tiers (a la reddit...)
Super-powered collapse buttons, for when people get tired mid-tree
I wish something were done, but I bet it will be an addon, not HN, first.
- stonith 10y agoMaybe some per-user jitter in the ordering so that different people are seeing very slightly different things at the upper end, giving those posts the chance to be seen?
- rm_-rf_slash 10y agoI like the comment collapse idea but i think it would be worth having a sorter so you can see the top comment thread but also newest first and most up-and-coming threads.
- pjc50 10y agoTake the natural logarithm of the comment karma, and then use as the weight in a weighted shuffle algorithm? Higher-voted comments will then be more likely to move up, but not guaranteed. (You might want to consider putting a thumb on the scale to distinguish between comments which are low voted because they're uninteresting, and comments which contain flame-bait words etc.)