Really interesting. Has anyone studied what happened to Hacker News after they turned off public upvote counts several years ago? 
My vague recollection is that I stopped checking Hacker News around that time. Maybe engagement stats show that?
Rank ordering of comments was preserved, but you had to spend a lot of time on HN to go more than a few comments deep.
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Rank ordering of comments was preserved, but you had to spend a lot of time on HN to go more than a few comments deep.
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My overall intuition is that we will need a totally new incentive-based approach to social networking now that we see failure modes at scale.
Hard to do Google till you’d seen several years of Yahoo.
Hard to do Google till you’d seen several years of Yahoo.
