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Poll: Which features would you like to have added to HN?

4 points by gabrielsroka ↗ HN
Let's compile these and send them to the admins.

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Poll results: https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hnpoll.html?id=34989529

13 comments

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znpy
Dark mode surely.

Other than that I guess it’s okay as a website.

gabrielsroka
Thanks. You can vote up above by clicking the up arrow.
jzombie
I sometimes want to see the content of dead posts or comments. Either the post link has been removed entirely or the comment was dimmed to oblivion and I have to resort to dark magic to read them.
gabrielsroka
Isn't that what the showdead option is on the Settings page?
jzombie
I am pretty sure that I don't have a settings page available on my account as silly as that sounds.

Hopefully someone else can back me up on that, but it might not be an available feature unless you have a certain amount of karma.

gabrielsroka
Click your name on the top right corner. It doesn't look like you need karma.
jzombie
Sorry, I was mistaken.

I didn't notice the setting for some reason, though it is enabled to "yes".

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To clarify, I thought there may have been an additional page that was the "settings" page. It's been a long day, though, and I'm stuck doing some debugging so my mind isn't all here at the moment.

mindcrime
What do you see at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jzombie

Is there not a "showdead" toggle right below the field for your email address? I had always thought that setting was available independent of any karma threshold...

jzombie
It is indeed there. I missed it earlier as I was scrambling to find a "settings" link and somehow missed that this was, in fact, the settings page.
cc101
An end to negative votes. No one cares if you don't approve of something. If you don't agree and discuss your concerns, that's worthwhile. I suspect that many negative votes are an emotional response to some unwelcome truth. That is damaging to free discussion.
jzombie
I agree with this.

Having had the experience of being dowmvoted when asking an honest question in a comment, and receiving a downvote instead, makes me a bit apprenhensive to ask questions at all.

If someone doesn't agree with something and wants to display their authority status of "I do not agree," a response would be better.

Plus, I have heard of people downvoting by accident.

Perhaps a compromise solution would be a downvote could happen if the downvoter actually made a comment, at which point, subjecting that response to being able to be downvoted as well, if necessary.