Ask HN: I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow night... got any questions?

Re:Ask HN: I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow ni... by einarvollset on Friday June 27, 2008 @05:14PM (#230200)

Ask them if I can have a job.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow ni... by dfranke on Friday June 27, 2008 @07:08PM (#230322)

Looks like PG is right about the mean downmodding.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow ni... by Alex3917 on Friday June 27, 2008 @08:28PM (#230373)

Downmodding is getting more frequent, but comments are also getting worse. The only problem so far as I can see is that instead of downmodding all bad comments, everyone seems to pick the same comment and downmod it.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow ni... by jrockway on Saturday June 28, 2008 @01:01AM (#230484)

Everyone picks the same comment to upmod. People see a good or bad number next to the comment and want to go along with the groupthink. After all, how could you go wrong upmodding a comment that 20 other people already upmodded?

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Re:Ask HN: I'm having dinner with the Mythbuster tomorrow ni... by BrandonM on Saturday June 28, 2008 @04:56AM (#230544)

I tend to do the opposite. Even if I somewhat agree with a comment, if it has a higher score than I think it should, I downmod it. Ditto for bad comments, but in reverse. I pay special attention to the 1 point comments that I like... they definitely get an upvote (note that "like" does not necessarily mean "agree with").

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