I like how Hacker News hides comment scores. Seems to me that seeing a comment’s score before reading it makes it harder to form an independent impression.
I fairly frequently find myself thinking something like: “this comment seems fine/interesting and yet it’s got a bunch of downvotes; the downvoters must know something I don’t, so I shouldn’t upvote”. If others also reason this way, the net effect is herd behavior? What if I only saw a comment’s score after voting/opting not to vote?
Maybe quadratic voting could help, by encouraging everyone to focus their voting on self-perceived areas of expertise? Commenters should be trying to impress a narrow & sophisticated audience instead of a broad & shallow one?
EDIT: Another thought: If there was a way I could see my recent votes, I could go back and reflect on them to ensure I’m voting in a consistent manner across threads
I like how Hacker News hides comment scores. Seems to me that seeing a comment’s score before reading it makes it harder to form an independent impression.
I fairly frequently find myself thinking something like: “this comment seems fine/interesting and yet it’s got a bunch of downvotes; the downvoters must know something I don’t, so I shouldn’t upvote”. If others also reason this way, the net effect is herd behavior? What if I only saw a comment’s score after voting/opting not to vote?
Maybe quadratic voting could help, by encouraging everyone to focus their voting on self-perceived areas of expertise? Commenters should be trying to impress a narrow & sophisticated audience instead of a broad & shallow one?
EDIT: Another thought: If there was a way I could see my recent votes, I could go back and reflect on them to ensure I’m voting in a consistent manner across threads