Re:Tell HN: Uptick in mean-spirited comments
by swolchok on Sunday October 31, 2010 @03:52AM
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A flaw: I might vote neutral as "I agree with this comment's current point value." In that light, 20 up, 5 down, and 500 neutral is a fairly confidently ranked 16-point comment, but 20 up, 5 down, and 0 neutral is not. However, the less confident one should be "floated" to a small portion of users to get more votes.
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Re:Tell HN: Uptick in mean-spirited comments
by davidw on Sunday October 31, 2010 @04:03AM
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> I agree with this comment's current point value.
That would be a really cool feature. I would often use it for comments at 0 - something that's factually wrong and needs to be voted down, but without nasty pile-on downvoting that sometimes happens, that to me looks a bit mean-spirited. If the comment in question went below zero, my 'stay' vote would count as an upvote. If it went higher, as a downvote.