Comment by hayksaakian
12 years ago
Will there be a 'show-dead' style option for those who choose to read HN unfiltered?
Otherwise, new users are unable to judge for themselves whether they agree with how the community endorses comments*.
Without such options any community eventually becomes a self-perputating hivemind.
I haven't implemented this yet but it would not be too hard.
My first thought was also "show-dead"; my second thought was a "comment cost".
Klocs are silly because they represent cost rather than value, correct? So perhaps comments should start out with (-1) karma rather than (0). That way, people will think twice about posting snark.