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>>jseip+(OP)
This article was more interesting than I anticipated. While I admire the tinkering which goes on with moderation here in an attempt to keep discussion civil and interesting, sometimes it has counter-productive effects. In particular this rule doesn't seem to work very well:

In order to prevent flamewars on Hacker News, articles with too many comments will get heavily penalized as controversial. In the published code, the contro-factor function kicks in for any post with more than 20 comments and more comments than upvotes.

Is a vigorous discussion bad? Should everyone commenting also upvote?

>>grey-a+C01
I used to imagine that scores were positively influenced by commenting. If there are comments then people thought the post worth noting.

I typically comment without upvoting. Maybe now that needs to change if I want to see discussion continue on topics I'm involved in.