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aw3c2 on Nov 27, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Tao of Programming

I recently thought that it might be an interesting experiment to not display any vote counts but instead order the posts based on them (as already done I guess).

bugs on Nov 28, 2009 [–]

pg did this for a few hours and used circles where the point number one, something like orange or red color was used to denote a popular comment.

Many people disliked this however and decided that the numbered system was better, thought a few hours allows very little benefits to be seen.

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