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user55340

11:14 PM

user55340

I'm a 10k on MSE.

Ixrec

wow, 53 answers

user55340

@Ixrec I've got one in there too.

Ixrec

I was about to say you aren't there but no, there's multiple pages of answers

user55340

Part of the thing was that SE tried to use the score as a "people liked it - we don't know what's going on here"

Ixrec

11:16 PM

which to me is totally unheard of outside of PPCG HNQs

yeah, a lot of answers and comments mentioned that

that was the biggest thing that annoyed me too so I upvoted the posts that pointed it out

user55340

> Your response to the proposal was positive – 85% of votes on the proposal were upvotes.

user55340

meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/272956/1

user55340

Which then lead to a "I up voted it because it was important and I couldn't down vote it" wave

Ixrec

yes I was there when they said that silly thing

indeed, that's still the top voted answer

user55340

@Ixrec On metas, I sort by active... hmm yea.

Ixrec

11:20 PM

kinda sucks that the one comment your answer got was a guy who clearly didn't pay attention when reading your answer

user55340

@Ixrec too many comments in a question and its answers have the negative impact of reducing visibility of posts, reducing their score, and making people just skip over them... I think Jon said something about that at one time and how discussion posts might become excessively noisy and less useful.

user55340

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Q: Hide trivial comments

Update: this particular implementation has been abandoned for now, please help us measure the cost of displaying comments instead. If you look around the internet, you'll find that: 99.9 percent of comments are either spam, off-message or simply wasted electrons.—ithacaindy (Obviously pa...

Ixrec

that question is a bit of an outlier though

there's so much wrong with it that people felt the need to write 53 separate answers

that's just not normal

user55340

@Ixrec I was kind of hinting at here where lots of answers on interesting questions and comments make for noise...

Ixrec

heck, I wanted to write my own answer before I saw that answer count

ok we're nowhere near this bad

user55340

11:23 PM

Q: How can we measure the cost of displaying comments?

As you can see from Jay's answer we have some internal disagreements about how much signal we lose from displaying comments and, more critically, how much hiding that signal would cost. I waved my hands by suggesting that we will "increase our information density" if we hide more comments, but t...

discussion comments testing

Ixrec

> add a comment | show 145 more comments

wow

user55340

@Ixrec Yea.

user55340

This goes to that the timeline is the most useful way to read incredibly noisy questions: meta.stackexchange.com/posts/272956/timeline

user55340

(to get the timeline: s/question/posts/ && s/whatever-is-at-the-end-slug/timeline/)

Ixrec

Welcome to Meta.SE! Please make sure to put a clear statement of the problem in your question. — shelvacu 17 hours ago