It's interesting to me that this is lower on the HN page than the Cloudflare post talking about the CVE handling even though the scoring is higher.
EDIT: Now it's off the main page, because of course it is.
It's interesting to me that this is lower on the HN page than the Cloudflare post talking about the CVE handling even though the scoring is higher.
EDIT: Now it's off the main page, because of course it is.
it's about the comments / votes ratio.
To be more specific, it is a heuristic for detecting flamewars and/or controversial topics and it is quite good at that.
why exactly do we want to damp flamewars by comment count? as long as an individual comment fits the rules why do we punish comments in aggregate