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Re:China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets r... by sigil on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:41PM (#22221000)
Reddit has a solution to this problem, and HN should steal it: randomize top-level comment order. This keeps the highest ranked comment from becoming a top-heavy attractor for all further discussion. I agree this is a real problem for discourse on HN these days!
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Re:China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets r... by anchpop on Sunday February 02, 2020 @10:39PM (#22221245)
Maybe an option, but I like that the top comment is usually above the average quality for that thread. Maybe something like a multi-arm bandit could work, where the nth top comment 'slot' on the page has an 80% chance of being the nth most upvoted comment, and a 20% chance of being a randomly selected comment?
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Re:China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets r... by fouc on Sunday February 02, 2020 @10:06PM (#22221096)
Hopefully dang sees this ^
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Re:China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets r... by ShorsHammer on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:02PM (#22221330)
Think I've seen this in a few subs as default? Randomised comments for each unique client, even with some weighting perhaps might bring some balance back.
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Re:China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets r... by judge2020 on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:25PM (#22221414)
Reddit's "best" filter isn't their "top" filter and does exactly what the parent says, explanation[0] ; it does this by default unless the sub moderators choose to default to a different view.

0: https://redditblog.com/2009/10/15/reddits-new-comment-sortin...

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Re:China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets r... by yahyaheee on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:35PM (#22221442)
I mean HN still doesn’t have proper replies and notifications so I’m not holding my breath
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