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		dominotw on March 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Ten seconds to ponder if a thread is wort... wouldn't that simply be comment_count > N ?

Terretta on March 1, 2021 [–]

Drama (controversy) may be more like replies per parent.

Flame wars, depth per parent.

Engagement, top level comments per upvote.

samatman on March 1, 2021 | [–]

If I were designing a heuristic for this, it would be based on a threshold of flagged comments and the existence of more than one post from dang.

Terretta on March 1, 2021 | | [–]

Well sure, easy mode if you add in the dang AI.

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