Re:How the Web Became Unreadable
by lacampbell on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @08:26PM
(#12748963)
I don't find it to be a feature. I find it infantilising. "Other users didn't like this post, so we'll make it hard to read". I think it was a terrible design decision on an otherwise very clean site.
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Re:How the Web Became Unreadable
by paulddraper on Thursday October 20, 2016 @12:40AM
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It's a very helpful hint as to which community contributed content is good quality.
Like Stack Overflow making the lower rated answers less obvious (at the bottom).
Oh, and SO greys out text too.
On Stack Overflow, where "Quality" can be quantified, this might work (even though stackoverflow slowly is failing - this being one of the reasons).
On mere discussion sites, quality does not equal popularity. Equating these two things leads to echo chambers.
Re:How the Web Became Unreadable
by The_suffocated on Thursday October 20, 2016 @03:35AM
(#12750360)
Hmm, since the appearances of low-quality answers on SO are so different from the others, I usually end up moving the mouse over them impulsively to read them. Had SO not greyed out such postings, I would have simply ignored them and saved plenty of my time.
Re:How the Web Became Unreadable
by emodendroket on Thursday October 20, 2016 @08:23PM
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> Oh, and SO greys out text too.
If all your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?