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krakensden on June 26, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: The best HN comments

That's something slashdot got right- capping comment scores. There's really no need to give something 128 upvotes, it's just a pileon.

skorgu on June 26, 2009 [–]

I don't like capping, sometimes there are truly exceptional comments that deserve 99.9%ile rankings. What about some form of logarithmic decay? Perhaps the first upvote should not be worth the same as the 101st.

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