Quantity may have a quality all its own in warfare but for comments having the invite tree and accountability is pretty nice!
I'd rather have (2) really insightful comments than 300 trying to promote themselves.
I'd rather have (2) really insightful comments than 300 trying to promote themselves.
The only thing I saw that ever significantly improved the quality of comments is vote-based comment system when it firstly started to emerge (I'm thinking Reddit in its first few years). But unfortunately it nowadays has been gamed to death, probably even worse than old public forums.
Exaggerating doesn't make reflect well on your argument.
HN doesn't have a notable problem with self-promotion.