NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments

Re:NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments by jonathankoren on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:48PM (#12307260)

Of the article isn't interesting, the article wouldn't have been voted up.

Marking down the comments indicates a desire by some to to enforce groupthink. Why? Because many people use votes to indicate agree-disagree instead of a quality metric.

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Re:NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments by Karunamon on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @03:03PM (#12307395)

You don't think agree/disagree votes apply to articles like they apply to comments?

And given what I've seen of the algorithm here, page positioning is a lot more complicated than vote count weighted by time.

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Re:NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments by jonathankoren on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @03:35PM (#12307677)

I think it's harder to agree/disagree with the typical headlines featured on HN. Most articles on HN appear to be straight.

But let's say that two articles were in the queue, one pro-X, the other anti-X and the pro-X forces were dominant. Sure the pro-X article would hit the FP, but the anti-X forces would still comment on it and be down voted.

Also the bias is only visible in the comment section because down voted comments remain visible, whereas a down voted article gets flushed down the memory hole.

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