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Comment by CWwdcdk7h

9 hours ago

To be more specific, it is a heuristic for detecting flamewars and/or controversial topics and it is quite good at that.

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swyx  7 hours ago

why exactly do we want to damp flamewars by comment count? as long as an individual comment fits the rules why do we punish comments in aggregate

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