Re:Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias"
by mechanical_fish on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @11:14PM
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+1, knee-jerk vote-up. :)
No, actually it's the phrase "it's like I hear it in a particular voice". Precisely correct. Sites like this one aren't collections of anonymous robots talking to other anonymous robots.
Re:Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias"
by attack on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @11:22PM
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Yeah, lets forget careful thinking and just support whoever had a good record previously regardless of what they say today.
Re:Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias"
by kirubakaran on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @11:24PM
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The experience of reading a comment knowing the commenter's id makes up (a little bit at least) for the lack of face2face. For example, based on a previous discussion, I know that mixmax had sex with a porn star :) When I read his comments now, my brain does some signal processing magic using this. Please note that I don't give him a +1 coz of this history. But this knowledge puts warmth in an otherwise cold place (cold = place filled with strangers).
Re:Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias"
by mixmax on Thursday April 17, 2008 @05:50AM
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I should never have written that - how can anyone here take me seriously now?
:-)
Re:Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias"
by kirubakaran on Thursday April 17, 2008 @10:29AM
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:-) IMO your words carry more weight because of it... (more knowledge, experience etc)
Most are clarifications as Hacker News Maintainer and Furry Investor. (or Furry Capitalist?)
Knee jerk vote-ups I am guilty of are for: edw519, mixmax, rms, pg and nostrademons. But I'm very sure I'd have voted those comments up even if I didn't know the commenter's id. ID gives more context... it is like I hear it in a particular voice.