Ask HN: Do you like HN's karma system?

Re:Ask HN: Do you like HN's karma system? by zzo38computer on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:13PM (#20628488)

No. I think is good to have communications without it. I would like to be able to disable it, so that when displaying messages to me, the karma is not taken into account. (Even if other people want to keep it enabled for displaying messages to them.)

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Re:Ask HN: Do you like HN's karma system? by tlb on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:31PM (#20628636)

AFAIK, a user's total karma isn't used to sort comments. Only the score on the individual comment is. Do you mean you want to see the comments sorted only by time?

To help convince people that your idea works, perhaps you could take a popular comment page and mock it up the way you think it should be and post it somewhere.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you like HN's karma system? by zzo38computer on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @04:42PM (#20629402)

Yes, I would like to see it sorted only by time and by what comment it is in reply to. Possibly I could try to use GreaseMonkey to reorder them by ID number, maybe. (Are the order of ID numbers the same as the order by time?)

However, I am not saying that it should be sorted only by time for everyone, but only by the user who has changed their account options to specify that as the default sort order.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you like HN's karma system? by tlb on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:56PM (#20630825)

Yes, IDs are monotonically increasing over time. So you could write a script that, within each comment nesting level, extracts the ID and sorts.

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