Comment by etrvic
17 days ago
I once read here on HN that a good metric for filtering controversial comment sections is number of upvotes/comments. If it's bellow one, the thread is probably controversial.
17 days ago
I once read here on HN that a good metric for filtering controversial comment sections is number of upvotes/comments. If it's bellow one, the thread is probably controversial.
Are you saying controversial is good or bad?
Neither, that's up to your individual preference. Although I think that controversial threads have more noise, but sometimes provide a more enjoyable read.
So what use is it to filter them? It seems you still have to judge their worth based on their actual contents.
5 replies →
[dead]
In common parlance, this would be called "ratioing".