How the Web Became Unreadable

Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by kps on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:04PM (#12746135)

Most bad design decisions are considered ‘features’ by those responsible.

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Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by combatentropy on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @04:34PM (#12747444)

Downvoted posts are meant to be harder and harder to read.

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Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by kps on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:37PM (#12747919)

They are. This merges “I disagree with this” and “No one should read this”, yielding “No one should read things I disagree with”.

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Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by edejong on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @06:20PM (#12748218)

At least this makes the decision explicit, as opposed to the editing bubbles created by popular social networks.

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Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by knieveltech on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:38PM (#12747926)

Obviously. Not everyone finds that endearing.

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Re:How the Web Became Unreadable by the_other on Thursday October 20, 2016 @07:16AM (#12751324)

This invites a kind of trolling. Imagine a bunch of people down-vote a comment quickly (justified or not), making it hard to read. Later readers who may have different opinions are discouraged from expressing them (up-voting) because the comment has become so hard to read it may not get read.

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