It would be nice, especially for mobile users, but as a "cost of doing business", it's not worth a lot of effort. A better strategy: think of comment scores along a log scale, something goofy like log3.
It's not 'pg anymore, BTW: it's 'dang and his team now.
This can be used to justify basically any missing feature though. Not incorrectly, per se - the site clearly works well enough in the exact state it is today - but it would be unfortunate if random papercuts (that could probably be fixed pretty easily) stayed around forever because fixing them was a "cost of doing business".
this has been a complaint for years and years, so presumably, it's not all that straightforward to fix.
If only there were some pool of talented programmers with obvious time to kill who would be willing to take a crack at it, almost certainly for free ...
Plenty of other sites manage to use open source code and even take pull requests without spilling their business secrets.
Then again, those sites are built on frameworks designed with modularity and separation of concerns in mind, while HN may not have been, so fair enough.
Can't happen since that would let people more easily circumvent bans and further reveal any behind-the-scenes mechanisms to promote YC compliant statements and suppress opposing views.
There's really no call to be a jerk about this. Keeping this site running is a galactically annoying job, and Dan and his team --- who have repeatedly said that nothing like this happens --- do it for us round the clock, for free.
I'd honestly rather they just fix the UI for it so it's not so incredibly easy to vote the wrong way on mobile, because that's really the only place I have this problem.
Even worse, once you vote the UI doesn't even show which way you voted. Half the time I vote on mobile I don't even know if I voted the right way.
One other good reason for fixing it is that upvoting comments now has the dual function of both expressing agreement and logging them in your profile (which, as you know, is now in parity with how upvoting stories works).
It's too bad that accidentally downvoting a comment means that you cannot ever save it in your profile.
Upvoting comments has the side-effect of logging them to your profile. Sometimes I specifically upvote an item just to log it.
But, when you accidentally downvote something (meaning that you meant to upvote it), then you can never save that comment because you cannot undue a downvote.
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It would be nice, especially for mobile users, but as a "cost of doing business", it's not worth a lot of effort. A better strategy: think of comment scores along a log scale, something goofy like log3.
It's not 'pg anymore, BTW: it's 'dang and his team now.
This can be used to justify basically any missing feature though. Not incorrectly, per se - the site clearly works well enough in the exact state it is today - but it would be unfortunate if random papercuts (that could probably be fixed pretty easily) stayed around forever because fixing them was a "cost of doing business".
Sure. I guess the subtext here is: this has been a complaint for years and years, so presumably, it's not all that straightforward to fix.
It would be better to eliminate karma altogether.
If only there were some pool of talented programmers with obvious time to kill who would be willing to take a crack at it, almost certainly for free ...
That would be tricky, because YC has business processes (applications, IIRC) that run through the same code.
Plenty of other sites manage to use open source code and even take pull requests without spilling their business secrets.
Then again, those sites are built on frameworks designed with modularity and separation of concerns in mind, while HN may not have been, so fair enough.
Can't happen since that would let people more easily circumvent bans and further reveal any behind-the-scenes mechanisms to promote YC compliant statements and suppress opposing views.
There's really no call to be a jerk about this. Keeping this site running is a galactically annoying job, and Dan and his team --- who have repeatedly said that nothing like this happens --- do it for us round the clock, for free.
I just upvoted comex but since the arrows are so small I'm afraid I actually downvoted comex :(
I'd honestly rather they just fix the UI for it so it's not so incredibly easy to vote the wrong way on mobile, because that's really the only place I have this problem.
Even worse, once you vote the UI doesn't even show which way you voted. Half the time I vote on mobile I don't even know if I voted the right way.
One other good reason for fixing it is that upvoting comments now has the dual function of both expressing agreement and logging them in your profile (which, as you know, is now in parity with how upvoting stories works).
It's too bad that accidentally downvoting a comment means that you cannot ever save it in your profile.
Why would you want to save the comments you downvoted?
Upvoting comments has the side-effect of logging them to your profile. Sometimes I specifically upvote an item just to log it.
But, when you accidentally downvote something (meaning that you meant to upvote it), then you can never save that comment because you cannot undue a downvote.