You can also hide the clicked (parent) comment too. I don’t personally use it, to keep an overview, but it allows going through comments with much less scrolling.

12 years. The amount of knowledge and experience shared in a conversational style was invaluable, but I cannot keep using a service that is hostile to users like me/us.

It affected how easily your comments or posts could get upvoted, the more karma you had the more “trust” you had. Bot accounts were bought from people with high karma due to this reason, and sold further for a higher price after farming.

At some point the post/comment karma was changed to a fuzzy number, someone claimed your karma affected how it was calculated. Not sure if true.

Reading about how digg died, one reason was “front-page” bandits/groups. Basically people grouping up and getting paid to land posts on the front page. The more they did it, the more “trust” they had to hit front page again, similarly to high karma accounts on Reddit.

Yes. It’s like saying you’ve moved on, while talking about your ex every chance you have.

Still, IMO, ideas should be considered no matter where they come from. They can just be dismissed.

I feel like it might be bit close-minded to think there might not be anything good to learn/implement. The core still has some Aaron Swartz in it.