We Have Comment Likes
Blog comments vary greatly in quality, and often low quality comments drive away readers and high quality comments. This blog is no exception.
We now have a “like” button in our comments section. If the people willing to like a comment have on average better taste than the people willing to write a comment, readers and authors could avoid low quality comments by focusing on the most liked comments. It isn’t obvious why this assumption should hold, but I thought likes probably couldn’t make comments much worse, so, why not give it a try.
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This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die.
Its part of it for sure, but the explanation lies here:
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Peace mate.
this might explain where this "high rep" came from I was referred too