HN Points

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by karlzt • 15 years ago

119 48 15 years ago

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inconditus• 15 years ago

Previous comments: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2568453

astrofinch• 15 years ago

What's the difference between apps subdomain and the news subdomain?

shii2• 15 years ago

Or just make a way to retrieve the points from hnsearch.com since they have access to them anyways...

Also, searchyc.com is now back up, but I'm not sure whether it has points access yet (it didn't before it went down during the initial points removal).

Seems like this is tackling the issue in the wrong way. Points won't be near accurate even, since most people won't have this installed. something something over engineering something something occam's razor.

jackowayed• 15 years ago

hnsearch gets points after a few days

spicyj2• 15 years ago

Unfortunately, there's no way to look up an item by ID using the HNSearch API, so it's not much use for building something to show points on all comments.

J3L24042• 15 years ago

Apparently the time delay is now down to 1 min.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=hnsearch+po...

judofyr• 15 years ago

I just wrote a simple user script using the HNSearch API for showing points: http://d.pr/7vYm. Not quite sure if I should release it though…

J3L24042• 15 years ago

You should release it because then I can stop working on my mine.

spicyj2• 15 years ago

Please do.

comex• 15 years ago

> Or choose: Chrome | Firefox | Opera | Greasemonkey | Bookmarklet

Someone went to a lot of effort over this.

tobylane• 15 years ago

Or made it in portable javascript and spent the last 30 mins porting it.

StavrosK• 15 years ago

If I recall correctly, Opera, Chrome and Safari use the exact same standard for extensions, so porting would take about ten minutes to do all three. I ported a Greasemonkey extension to Opera in about five minutes.

It's basically Firefox and then everything else.

Osiris• 15 years ago

Except the Opera extension gets served as application/zip so Opera puts a ZIP extension on it and you have to manually rename it to .oex.

Indyan• 15 years ago

Yeah, Opera extension has incorrect MIME.

dclowd9901• 15 years ago

I know this is probably digressing too far from the topic at hand, but I just want to say that, having used plenty of sites that do display their points, it's refreshing to me that HN doesn't. I think seeing points has the psychological effect of swaying popular opinion one way or the other (the token "hivemind" -- you probably know more or less who I'm referring to).

rubergly• 15 years ago

Too bad the same behavior happens anyway because of recognizable names.

lhnz• 15 years ago

That actually is the case for me now, and it's difficult to stop myself. There are a handful of users that always post interesting posts so when I am skimming a thread and read one of their posts I am always more considerate to them...

mixmax• 15 years ago

besides it isn't true.

PG posted at some point that comments which had a lot of points before actually have more points after the don't-show-points change.

bane• 15 years ago

I've noticed that voting patterns on my comments have radically changed since the no-points change. Far less piling on of up and downvotes, and at least to me, seems to far better reflect the additive discussion value of my comments.

I'd be interested to see have the average points have changed for HN celebrity types like patio11.

siddhant• 15 years ago

Sometime back, there was a poll about how many users wanted to see points versus how many users don't. And I still remember that (much) more users wanted to see comment scores. Is there any plan to bring it back?

egor83• 15 years ago

PG: I didn't say I'd do whatever got the most votes.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595783

mhb2• 15 years ago

So what was the point of the poll if a convincing vote outcome has no effect?

mtogo2• 15 years ago

Remove a useful feature, ask the community if they want it back, and then ignore overwhelming support for adding the feature back.

Keep in mind that this is a man that tries to give you startup advice.

shii2• 15 years ago

Hacker News is not a democracy. pg is our benevolent dictator. Long live pg.

Also, the beatings^H^H^Hdownvotes will continue until morale improves.

middus• 15 years ago

I for one welcome our pg overlord.

crizCraig• 15 years ago

yason• 15 years ago

How many tokens of Arc would it take to make the display of comment scores configurable? I know that removing options is a good way to impose design but this just might be one of the cases for which mere user preference is enough.

mmaunder• 15 years ago

Interesting psychological hook in this. You'd better download it or you'll be the blind man in the valley of the one-eyed.

raganwald2• 15 years ago

Imagine that only a small minority of users--perhaps as few as just one-- do not use this and are "blind." What is the disadvantage to them?

gnosis4• 15 years ago

Very interesting question.

I am probably not going to use it myself, simply because I don't want to be swayed by other people's opinions of any given comment.

Unfortunately, even without visible comment scores there's still some indication of how many votes a given comment has received.[1] But if you don't want to be swayed by the herd, not seeing comment scores is still a step forward.

The only disadvantages of not seeing comment scores I can think of are that without them the reader would be less effective at using the "wisdom of the crowd" to gauge the relative worth of comments, and his curiosity wouldn't be satisfied.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2701906

creativeone• 15 years ago

Installed...anyone else in?

Joeboy• 15 years ago

I am, which is presumably why you can see how many points this post has.

drdaeman• 15 years ago

It's a bit weird. I don't see the score for your post, but see it for a parent one.

exterm• 15 years ago

Opera "extension" seems to install as a widget when it should be an extension... anyone else experiencing this problem?

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