[dntrkv]

HN doesn't show dislikes and it manages to surface content better than the vast majority of aggregators and forums out there. Subreddits that remove the dislike function have much better content and levels of discourse.

Removing dislikes (hiding them being step one) seems to be one of the better ways to improve the quality of content and commentary. Just for the fact that it removes the ability of a single group to brigade any content/creator they dislike or disagree with.

[MMS21]

>HN doesn't show dislikes

It sort of does; comments go from black to grey to the point where its nearly invisible.

[GhettoComputers]

It shows total score though. Moderators and a community culture with quality control matters way more, there is no evidence that it increases quality. Just look at 4chan with no scores.

[Nesco]

Except that on 4chan people adapts and mostly reads threads that already possess replies. The multiplicative effect it creates ensure that only the threads that are the most interesting get most of the views. And because it is an image board a similar effect happens for posts: the presence of an image and the length of a post give a quick proxy to evaluate the effort put in it. Yes it will never be as effective as a karma / like system but imo it’s well suited to an anonymous imageboard, particularly for boards where threads without replies tends to get replaced quickly.

[TheRealNGenius]

It doesn't show votes on comments for me. I can't even downvote!

[chairmanwow1]

You can after 500 karma