Comment Score for User
Include an overall commenting score for each user on the Top Diggers page as well as each user's commented page.
Many feel that comments are a necessary part of community participation, and as such, many are concerned about the quality of comments. Providing a statistic that shows the diggs and buries of a user's comments would allow these scores to be compared among users.
GnuTzu submitted 1338 days ago to
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Zipp425 - 1331 days ago
This would be awesome to know what people in general think of a users comments. It would definitely make digg more social.
sfacets - 1331 days ago
This would result in a huge increase in comments, users will get pissed off at the comment flood system, and possibly go on a rampage in McDonalds.
I think it's good on one hand, because it does promote discussion, but how many users will be writing rubbish just to get their score up?
I think it's good on one hand, because it does promote discussion, but how many users will be writing rubbish just to get their score up?
GnuTzu - 1330 days ago
@sfacets,
That's a reasonable warning. Keep in mind that the score would be drived from both diggs and buries for a user's comment. A person writing lots of garbage would have most of their comments buried; and as a result, their overall score would suffer. I imagine that if this became a big deal, then the comment scoring system would also have a secret algorithm to prevent gaming the comment scores.
The hope, though, is that this would promote better comments.
That's a reasonable warning. Keep in mind that the score would be drived from both diggs and buries for a user's comment. A person writing lots of garbage would have most of their comments buried; and as a result, their overall score would suffer. I imagine that if this became a big deal, then the comment scoring system would also have a secret algorithm to prevent gaming the comment scores.
The hope, though, is that this would promote better comments.
AnnaBay21 - 1158 days ago
That would ease the process on one hand and complicate at the same time