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Ben Casnocha: belief

23 Aug 2023 Conversations with Tyler Celebrating Marginal Revolution's 20th Anniversary

“The Reddit style, being able to just see the top comments versus wading through it all, I think has been a big improvement.”

— Ben Casnocha

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Ben Casnocha
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belief
Recorded
23 Aug 2023
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Conversations with Tyler

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…It’s like the intellectual calculation of the comment section. There will be lists of comments. Maybe every comment is bad, but actually, in the aggregate, you learn a lot from triangulating against it. Well, here’s what these people would say. Adding the upvote feature, to me, was long overdue but has substantially improved the quality of the comment section. The Reddit style, being able to just see the top comments versus wading through it all, I think has been a big improvement. There’s a lot of manipulation, though. I think it’s an improvement, but a modest one.…

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