Ask HN: How to “subscribe” to comments in a specific post?

Re:Ask HN: How to “subscribe” to comments in a specific post? by mikewarot on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:59PM (#34017828)

If there were a way to add votes in other dimensions, this would be less of an issue. You could then weight a matrix to get a view of things tailored to your preferences without using 3rd party tools.

Examples of multi-dimensional voting:

  https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603656085390270464
  "My plane is not trackable without using non-public data (twitter.com/elonmusk)"

  Up in Elon Musk, Twitter, ADSB, Politics
  Down in Truth

There are lots of things that get lost when you are forced into a single dimension.

There is a HUGE gain, and that's the fact that it forces the community to agree on what an upvote or downvote means, at least it should.

It has often been unclear to me why things get voted the way they do. Splitting votes into many dimensions might fix that.

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Re:Ask HN: How to “subscribe” to comments in a specific post? by zzo38computer on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:55PM (#34019405)

I agree; I would prefer to get rid of the voting entirely if it is limited to one dimension. If votes are available for many dimensions, then the votes might be good and useful; as they are, I do not like them and do not use them, and would rather have an option to use chronological display order. (If you can download the file on your computer and run your own SQL queries, then you can also make up your own criteria however you want to do. However, in such a case, it should need to support incremental updates.)

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