baq 6 days ago

I'm still missing being able to read only +5 insightful comments after 20 years.

I'd expect Slashdot's point systems and meta moderation to make a comeback in the LLM slop world we live in currently, but nobody knows about it anymore. Steam kinda rediscovered it in their reviews, perhaps even was inspired by it (I hope...)

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Tijdreiziger 6 days ago

Dutch tech news website Tweakers.net basically has this. Comments are moderated on a scale from -1 to +3, and then you can choose to expand only +2 and up.

spockz 6 days ago

I have it set to 2 by default which helps but can also be annoying on fresh posts as unmoderated posts are also hidden. And then if there is a +2 post it totally only makes sense in the context of the tree so now I’m manually unfolding the parent comments.

All of this to say that one feature brings in a whole set of additional complications. Less is more.

busymom0 6 days ago

Can you explain how that works? I visited the site but don't understand their language.