Re:Want Hacker News Comment Scores Back? Check out HNPoints.com
by tptacek on Friday May 20, 2011 @03:51PM
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I think you just missed the whole thread of people explaining why scores did not allow you to determine the trustworthiness of a comment.
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Re:Want Hacker News Comment Scores Back? Check out HNPoints.com
by guptaneil on Friday May 20, 2011 @04:09PM
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There is a subtle difference between quality and trustworthiness. It's possible I missed the thread you're talking about, but as far as I can see, most of the discussions here are discussing quality. Like I said, I agree score does not correlate to quality necessarily. I was simply pointing out that in the case of specialized topics like wheels mentioned, even a score of 5 is a useful signal in telling me that it's trustworthy, versus reading a comment with a score of 1 that could be complete BS and should be taken with a grain of salt.
Re:Want Hacker News Comment Scores Back? Check out HNPoints.com
by jeromec on Saturday May 21, 2011 @10:18AM
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even a score of 5 is a useful signal in telling me that it's trustworthy
But that can be a false signal. It's quite possible to have eloquent writers make total crap written in an authoritative style sound believable enough to have 5 people nod and upvote. Having no scores forces people to do their own research and form their own conclusion about trustworthiness, which is more work, but better.