Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read?

Re:Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read? by cperciva on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @04:36PM (#11670456)

This is something (perhaps the only thing) I miss here which reddit has: /r/bestof. Comments, no matter how good, never end up on /news and so anyone who isn't reading the rest of the discussion in question will never see them.

Come to think of it, is there any technical limitation on having comments submitted as stories? Maybe it's just a cultural issue (i.e., there is no culture of submitting comments as stories here).

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Re:Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read? by dang on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @04:37PM (#11670470)

There's no technical limitation. In fact bugs have occasionally caused comments to appear on the front page.

A genuine technical limitation is that poll options don't work like other items ('item' is what the code calls posts like stories, comments, and job ads), which caused some trouble last week.

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Re:Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read? by s-phi-nl on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @05:23PM (#11670771)

I trust you are aware of http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments ?

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Re:Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read? by alister on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @06:10PM (#11671091)

Is it possible to implement features similar to the above without being a ycombinator insider? Since upvotes aren't visible on comments, other than comments you made yourself, how could you calculate it? (Are the upvotes on comments available through an API for example?)

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Re:Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read? by cperciva on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @05:47PM (#11670930)

Yes, but that's just the highest scores -- which is a very noisy measurement given that it depends on how many people read the threads in question.

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Re:Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read? by scott_s on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:08PM (#11679292)

I'm pretty sure that's happened. I even recall someone doing some recursion trick with it - which I just tried, but I can't edit the URL after submission. (Maybe you used to be able to?)

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Re:Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read? by DanBC on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @04:42PM (#11670502)

Would /r/bestofHNcomments work as a subreddit?

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