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Re:How spammers are gaming the podcast charts by shrikant on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:15PM (#18250703)
> I admit it's very counterintuitive or almost subversive these days to suggest that internet points be kept secret.

Interesting point. I'm not sure if you already know this, but Hacker News used to display points for each comment previously. This was turned off in...I dunno, early 2011?

I don't think it's harmed user activity on the site at all!

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Re:How spammers are gaming the podcast charts by warent on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:21PM (#18251316)
I did not know that but I'm glad they did. Displaying "internet points" causes herd mentality to propagate and removes critical thinking or at least diminishes one's capacity to genuinely listen to one's own feeling. The same goes beyond intellectual content; ditto for creative content (e.g. YouTube videos) etc.
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