Comment by torginus
4 days ago
Yeah, SO had many problems, I'd argue most stemming from the points system that:
- Made people treat it like a contest and tried to game it
- Obscure, difficult questions, with obscure, difficult answers barely being valued, while 'How do I make a GET request in node' going gangbusters.
as an aside, the ranking/rating systems are largely why I quit using social media a long time ago and stick to a small chatroom of people I know. it's relatively tolerable here where scores aren't next to posts (and the user base generally tolerant, lets whoever say their piece and move on), but I use following ublock filter to hide the score stuff:
news.ycombinator.com###karma
news.ycombinator.com##.score
news.ycombinator.com##td:has-text(/^karma:$/):upward(tr)
I've thought about removing the graying feature and maybe doing a random sort of replies, but haven't accumulated enough spite yet.
I’m addicted to Reddit but confess it’s mostly about saying something clever or funny to get high scores, not necessarily insightful or informative.
Still better than X though.