I mostly read Hacker News without posting. I like the change. Something about the feeling of reading comment chains changes when you can't see what the faceless community has thought about every comment. Now you can read the arguments without such an immediate bias.
It also makes me more aware of the clipped, cold feel of the dialogues we have here. Most (though not all) exchanges here read to me as humorless and either blunt or overpolite. I don't know if I entirely like it, but I wouldn't immediately say it's a bad thing either. It works better, I think, in the tech discussions, but elsewhere it keeps me feeling distant from the conversation.
Now, the question I'd have for people who post more than I do is: How do you feel about comment threads where you see your score but nobody else's? How's that change your perception of threads when your score's high, versus when you have a comment or series of comments in the greys?
It also makes me more aware of the clipped, cold feel of the dialogues we have here. Most (though not all) exchanges here read to me as humorless and either blunt or overpolite. I don't know if I entirely like it, but I wouldn't immediately say it's a bad thing either. It works better, I think, in the tech discussions, but elsewhere it keeps me feeling distant from the conversation.
Now, the question I'd have for people who post more than I do is: How do you feel about comment threads where you see your score but nobody else's? How's that change your perception of threads when your score's high, versus when you have a comment or series of comments in the greys?