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Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?

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Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?

#11

Post by _5y6p »

I have downvote arrows on comments, but at some point they ceased to affect the score. Which is to say, I click on the downvote, and the points go down by one, but upon reloading the page, the score is the same as before.

(And yes, it's happened enough times that I know it isn't just someone voting the comment back up in the intervening period.)

Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?

#14

Post by maxwell »

brandonkm wrote: post #2

At 250 apparently you can change the color of the bar on the top. 6 more points to go! *Thanks to everyone who voted this up. I can now confirm that this is indeed legit. On your settings page you can enter a six digit hexadecimal number that will change the color of the top bar. I'm going to try some of these out! http://www.somacon.com/cgi/colorchart.pl

http://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors

Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?

#17

Post by CalmQuiet »

My question would be: why the secrecy? HN worried that transparency about the processes of ratings & their "rewards" (which (plus + $5.00) will buy you a cappuccino) would lead to abuse of the system? I think openness system would allow for HN viewers to discuss the value of different site-karma processes -- enabling the site designers (and all of us) to benefit more from the community's collective genius and experience (on this issue the way it does on others).

Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?

#18

Post by jyothi »

frisco wrote: post #16
robertk wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you post polls? I'm in like...the top 250...I should be able to.

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

Thanks! I wanted this so many times earlier. Never figured how to post a poll.

This should have been exposed from the submit link.

Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?

#19

Post by SwellJoe »

jyothi wrote: post #18
frisco wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

Thanks! I wanted this so many times earlier. Never figured how to post a poll. This should have been exposed from the submit link.

This should have been exposed from the submit link.

I believe this is a not so subtle way to discourage gratuitous use of polls. I, for one, think that having it be an invisible feature is a great win for human decency--the knowledge that it is there prevents people from "vote up if" posts, but having it hidden doesn't remind people constantly that they can run polls to their heart's content. Since polls are almost universally free of useful content, but people still love to create them, this is, perhaps, the best that can be done.

Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?

#20

Post by mojombo »

maxwell wrote: post #14
brandonkm wrote: post #2

At 250 apparently you can change the color of the bar on the top. 6 more points to go! *Thanks to everyone who voted this up. I can now confirm that this is indeed legit. On your settings page you can enter a six digit hexadecimal number that will change the color of the top bar. I'm going to try some of these out! http://www.somacon.com/cgi/colorchart.pl

http://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors

There's an easier way: http://colorpicker.com/
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