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Wouldn't there be an escrow problem ?
I don't think so, because this can be done over a cup of coffee. Everybody is in the Bay Area anyways :)
The rewards of owning a high-karma account are limited. You don't get to upvote a frontpage item more than once (or do you? not at 780). Your comments may receive an occasional fanboy upvote, but that only creates more karma and doesn't shift the visibility of your message by a large amount. So in conclusion, I don't think HN accounts will be traded much. Perhaps more if the frequency of "free invites to our beta ser…
While you still only get to upvote once, as I understand it, that vote counts more than once based on your karma. Regardless, while you might get high karma values based only on article submissions, that isn't going to impress anybody. When PG is looking at your HN account, he's almost certainly looking for insightful comments , vs. just a high karma score. It's really hard to farm out quality comments to somebody el…
Unless there's been a recent change, each vote has the same weight unless it triggers voting ring detection.
All: Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Karl: Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?
Lenny: Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
Alien: We do! We do!
All: Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Skinner: Who robs cavefish of their sight?
Homer: Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do! WE DO!