Propose HN: 'Countless' experiment – hiding all karmic integers

Re:Propose HN: 'Countless' experiment – hiding all karmic in... by johnmaguire2013 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:29PM (#19752211)

When browsing the titles of Hacker News, I look at the vote and comment count to determine whether an article is high quality or not. I am not sure how I would filter the signal from the noise without this.

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Re:Propose HN: 'Countless' experiment – hiding all karmic in... by fyfy18 on Friday April 26, 2019 @07:12AM (#19756278)

I don't really bother about the vote count, but more the comments. A lot of stories I don't even read, I just go straight to the comments as I find them a lot more valuable (most stories you can get the basis just from the title).

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Re:Propose HN: 'Countless' experiment – hiding all karmic in... by localhostdotdev on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:34PM (#19752253)

you could use https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=200 or maybe the experiment could allow opt-out

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Re:Propose HN: 'Countless' experiment – hiding all karmic in... by heavenlyblue on Thursday April 25, 2019 @05:53PM (#19752854)

But you can use that one to then brute-force the points for every story.

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Re:Propose HN: 'Countless' experiment – hiding all karmic in... by localhostdotdev on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:01PM (#19753330)

not so easy for lower scores :)

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