I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count

Re:I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvo... by wrs on Thursday April 28, 2011 @08:57PM (#2495892)

This has been suggested before, but perhaps the ability to vote separately on "good/bad contribution" and "agree/disagree" would be a good thing. If nothing else, it might give the "agree/disagree" folks a way to express their views without affecting the sorting (which should be by "good/bad contribution", I hope most would agree).

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Re:I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvo... by moe on Thursday April 28, 2011 @09:57PM (#2496050)

I vote both "good contribution" and "agree" on your comment.

Your two metrics pretty much nail what I want to know to quickly skim a dense comments page. They don't even need to be numbers, a small graphical representation might work even better.

Just give my eyes something to lock on, from there I will likely read the sub-thread regardless of votes anyways.

The current state is awful. Just take this thread, with currently 180 comments. No chance am I going to skim even half of them to pick out the good ones. I read the top few, scroll down a little, and then quickly lose interest. - That's the new HN for me.

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