I thought it was working well without points until this morning.
With this ASK HN post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2444709
) about the best credit card payment method I would typically immediately go and look at the comment scores.
Because a vote for a comment is typically a vote for the thing being recommended.
It's really a "poll-like" question except it can't be a poll because the OP doesn't know the options in advance.
Other than that one problem though,I found I was judging people's comments more thoughtfully without the scores.
This is a genuine use-case, and worth considering.
Perhaps a hide-by-default policy, but each page has a link you can click to show points on that page. The extra manual step will mean that most people won't bother unless they have a need to. Just make sure there's no 'show points' setting in the user profile, otherwise the extra step is removed.
With this ASK HN post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2444709 ) about the best credit card payment method I would typically immediately go and look at the comment scores.
Because a vote for a comment is typically a vote for the thing being recommended.
It's really a "poll-like" question except it can't be a poll because the OP doesn't know the options in advance.
Other than that one problem though,I found I was judging people's comments more thoughtfully without the scores.