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Re:Ask PG: Is there any chance of getting points displayed a... by wavephorm on Monday October 17, 2011 @05:13PM (#3122489)
It also decreases the level of engagement, readability of a thread, and because weighting of comments is now invisible there is no reason to upvote or downvote anything, or read any particular comment over another. It's all just one big blob of text that I have to manually sift through. Might as well just remove the arrows because they serve no purpose now.
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Re:Ask PG: Is there any chance of getting points displayed a... by brlewis on Monday October 17, 2011 @05:18PM (#3122501)
Votes still help move a comment above or below its siblings.
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Re:Ask PG: Is there any chance of getting points displayed a... by mixmax on Monday October 17, 2011 @06:21PM (#3122748)
except for the fact that in a threaded discussion where points is only one of the parameters (time and user karma being the other tow as far as I know) this isn't true for most comments. I did the numbers for a long thread some time ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569997
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Re:Ask PG: Is there any chance of getting points displayed a... by frossie on Monday October 17, 2011 @09:20PM (#3123346)
I am not convinced hiding points results in voter apathy. My points received per comment seem to be higher after that change.

Of course PG has presumably actual statistics about this.

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Re:Ask PG: Is there any chance of getting points displayed a... by pbhjpbhj on Monday October 17, 2011 @10:50PM (#3123623)
>My points received per comment seem to be higher after that change. //

One often gets a lot of votes for a low value comment, something like a clarification. It's clearly valuable but before people would see that the vote on it was say at 2 points and wouldn't vote it up as that would be the right level for such a comment.

Comments that would have been -1 before now appear to be faded to almost nothing. I've no idea what that means WRT downvotes but presumably it means most everyone hates the opinion in that comment.

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Re:Ask PG: Is there any chance of getting points displayed a... by pbhjpbhj on Monday October 17, 2011 @10:46PM (#3123607)
This.
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