Jyte needs a "Bury this claim" button.
By
Ryan Grove
on February 19, 2007
Burying a claim would cause it to be hidden from the current user's view. If enough people buried a claim, it would eventually fade away into nothingness and disappear forever from all users' views.
The effect of a user's "bury" vote could be proportional to that user's cred, so that, for example, ten users with high cred could bury a claim into oblivion, whereas it might take 30 or 40 users with low cred to do the same. In addition, burying a claim might reduce a user's cred ever so slightly to prevent abuse of power.
I think this would provide provide a democratic means of weeding out crappy claims. Comments?
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The idea, though, is to limit the burying power of high-cred users by causing them to lose a small amount of cred each time they bury a claim. This way, someone might abuse the privilege a few times, but eventually their "bury" votes will have less and less power, so it won't be an issue.
In any case, it would never be possible for a single user to bury a claim into oblivion, so in order to abuse the privilege, multiple high-cred users would have to be in collusion (or lots and lots of low-cred users, which is even less likely).
I don't like the idea of it costing cred to do something that is intended as a service to the users. Personally, I would use such a power very carefully, and try to bury nonsensical claims. People might not always agree with my opinion, but I don't like the idea of being conflicted between trying to help people and getting hurt for doing it. Which means, I probably would decide not to bury claims, because screw you if you want to hurt me for trying to make the interface better.
It might be better to have a kind of slashdot mechanism where people can vote on the quality of a claim, and you can choose to surf through claims above a threshhold quality level.
A count of "dismissed without voting" would serve this purpose more humanely. It wouldn't be the same as burying, since users could always search by this number, but since there's a demand for a dismiss feature already, I don't see the downside.
>>Bury this claim
Fair enough. I'd be content with a button that merely hid a claim from my own view.
"Ryan Grove who agreed, says
Fair enough. I'd be content with a button that merely hid a claim from my own view."
Well Put
I prefer "dismiss" to "bury". It's less Digg, and more disdainful. :-)