My thought is that each registered user should be able to choose their own weigh...

twelvechairs on Aug 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..

My thought is that each registered user should be able to choose their own weighting of comments (from age-of-membership, average-karma-per-post, combinations of upvotes and downvotes, etc). Would this not make HN much more vibrant and allow a broader-range of discussion within the same thread?

jedberg on Aug 18, 2012 [–]

That would be an ideal case, but turns out to be extremely difficult at scale.