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I would really like to see comments I have upvoted... There are bunch of wise comments somewhere, that I have read, upvoted, and forgot.

by stralep 14y ago

ColinWright 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=stralep http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=stralep
- stralep 14y ago
  Comments, not stories...
  - ColinWright 14y ago
    Ah - noted - apologies. I personally keep a separate note of comments of interest, and I was a little quick to respond. Yes, an equivalent for comments of "saved" would be useful.
andyjohnson0 14y ago
It would be useful to be able to 'star' or 'favourite' a comment or submission, to have them accessible in a private list, and to see how many people had done this to your own comments/submissions. I wouldn't like this to be generally visible though. As others have said, it creates a halo effect and discourages diversity of opinions.
- stralep 14y ago
  I see no reason to use additional mechanism. Why not use upvote? I'm upvoting stories so I could see them later (as ColinWright noted), why not create a page I could see comments I liked?
  - andyjohnson0 14y ago
    Separation of concerns. You might want to be able to tag a post or comment as noteworthy but not want to upvote it. For example, to remind you to come back to it and add a comment explaining why its wrong or that you disagree with it. Basically: Upvote != Save for Later
    - icebraining 14y ago
      Isn't that what bookmarks are for? Why do we need HN to recreate basic browser functionality?
      - politician 14y ago
        Perhaps to address a limitation in browsers wherein it is not currently possible to scope bookmarks to a given site during a search for said bookmarks?
        icebraining 14y ago
        That's what folders are for. And in any case, if you bookmark the comments page, you can then search by the hn domain, at least on Firefox.
tokenadult 14y ago
I would really like to see comments I have upvoted I have used two strategies to go back to comments I have liked to read (whether or not I happened to upvote them when I read them). I either a) use my brower's bookmarking capability to bookmark the exact link to the comment or b) I copy the exact link of the comment into a text file that I save for building FAQs. I also make extensive use of HN Search and site-restricted Google search to find old comments on recurring topics here that are worth looking up again. Sometimes I find new good comments that way that I didn't see back when they were fresh. I try in general to upvote a lot, so the "saved stories" on my user profile here on HN includes hundreds upon hundreds of threads, way too many to be practical for going back to particular good comments.

I would really like to see comments I have upvoted... There are bunch of wise comments somewhere, that I have read, upvoted, and forgot.

by stralep 14y ago

I would really like to see comments I have upvoted... There are bunch of wise comments somewhere, that I have read, upvoted, and forgot.

ColinWright 14y ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=stralep http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=stralep

stralep 14y ago
Comments, not stories...
- ColinWright 14y ago
  Ah - noted - apologies. I personally keep a separate note of comments of interest, and I was a little quick to respond. Yes, an equivalent for comments of "saved" would be useful.

andyjohnson0 14y ago

It would be useful to be able to 'star' or 'favourite' a comment or submission, to have them accessible in a private list, and to see how many people had done this to your own comments/submissions. I wouldn't like this to be generally visible though. As others have said, it creates a halo effect and discourages diversity of opinions.

stralep 14y ago
I see no reason to use additional mechanism. Why not use upvote? I'm upvoting stories so I could see them later (as ColinWright noted), why not create a page I could see comments I liked?
- andyjohnson0 14y ago
  Separation of concerns. You might want to be able to tag a post or comment as noteworthy but not want to upvote it. For example, to remind you to come back to it and add a comment explaining why its wrong or that you disagree with it. Basically: Upvote != Save for Later
  - icebraining 14y ago
    Isn't that what bookmarks are for? Why do we need HN to recreate basic browser functionality?
    - politician 14y ago
      Perhaps to address a limitation in browsers wherein it is not currently possible to scope bookmarks to a given site during a search for said bookmarks?
      - icebraining 14y ago
        That's what folders are for. And in any case, if you bookmark the comments page, you can then search by the hn domain, at least on Firefox.

tokenadult 14y ago

I would really like to see comments I have upvoted I have used two strategies to go back to comments I have liked to read (whether or not I happened to upvote them when I read them). I either a) use my brower's bookmarking capability to bookmark the exact link to the comment or b) I copy the exact link of the comment into a text file that I save for building FAQs. I also make extensive use of HN Search and site-restricted Google search to find old comments on recurring topics here that are worth looking up again. Sometimes I find new good comments that way that I didn't see back when they were fresh. I try in general to upvote a lot, so the "saved stories" on my user profile here on HN includes hundreds upon hundreds of threads, way too many to be practical for going back to particular good comments.