Comment by tptacek
12 years ago
Eh. Yes, but not at the cost of wasting good-faith efforts to contribute and making it hard for them to contribute on other threads. I'd probably endorse similar comments on a thread, even though they were redundant, for that reason.
I definitely won't, unless they're adding something unique.
Threads are cluttered enough as it is, and the idea isn't to encourage good faith efforts, but to improve comment quality.
But that's the problem. It's going to shut me up and out of conversations. I can ask a question but someone else may have already and I can't / don't want to risk not getting endorsed and not being able to comment else where.
I see this new feature as being a reason I stop participating altogether. I get not wanting reddit like comments and threads, but I fear this swings too much towards a "good old boys" club.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446499
But, I mean, it's your button, use it how you want.
Oh good, shifting standards.
That alone reduces the positive impact of this change, and keeps the negative. Eh. Less interested in this than I was.