On: Experiment: No Comment Scores

[alexgartrell]

One PLUS of karma scores next to comments is that I know when to stop reading :)

If my personal interest + the comment score < arbitrary threshold, i quit

[j_baker → alexgartrell]

You know, if there's one thing programmers should appreciate, it's making it easy to see which information you don't want to read.

[tumult → j_baker]

A simple number next to a post doesn't necessarily tell you much about whether or not you want to read it.

[kingnothing → tumult]

Sure it does. This is a community of individuals who share common interests. If the community values a particular comment, there's a high probability that I'm going to find value in it as well because of those shared interests.

[camccann → kingnothing]

And conversely, if I consistently find that the community values comments that I think are junk, I'm probably going to eventually leave the community (which is why I'm here, and not on certain other sites).

[tumult → kingnothing]

You don't have to be part of the community to sign up for an account and start voting stuff up.

[kingnothing → tumult]

I think you're implicitly part of the community once you sign up.