evand comments on One possible issue with radically increased lifespan - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 31 May 2012 05:53:38AM 5 points [-]

I've been wondering how to "fix it" but I have nothing concrete.

Letting go of the assumption that every user account's votes should have the same weight would probably go a long way. I'm not saying such a measure is called for right now; I'm just bringing it up to get people used to the idea if things get worse.

Comment author: evand 31 May 2012 02:33:17PM 0 points [-]

What if the site just defaulted to a random sort order, so different people are presented with different comments first? That would still tend to bias in favor of older comments getting high presentation rank more. I'm not sure that's such a bad thing, though.