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Do we really want people chasing karma on here? I'd be tempted to go the other way, and limit the visibility and usefulness of it. I.e., on user profiles just show "between 1-50 karma", "500+ karma".
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Downvote posts? Not that I would really personally use that, but it seems the logical next step with the other "powers" unlocked at karma milestones. My concern with any change made is that it would encourage people to try and get a bunch of karma which could have unforeseen effects on the quality of discussion/submissions. I'm sure you'll be taking that into account for any change made, though.
Not allowing post downvotes is, IMO, a key factor in what allows HN to be such a great community. Subreddits that allow downvoting, for instance, often see topics that would expand their contributors' horizons "die in New" not because they are against the rules, per say, but because the user who happens to see them first thinks "this isn't my cup of tea." Flagging is the right answer - let people flag flagrant rule v…
I don't want people chasing karma here. I especially don't want to encourage it for something they can solve with one line in their user stylesheet. "Hackers", indeed. I became so troubled by my own reaction that I added a couple lines of CSS to disable the absolute counter in the corner of every page. That number is toxic. https://imgur.com/a/uPnW7bT
I don't want people chasing karma here. I especially don't want to encourage it for something they can solve with one line in their user stylesheet. "Hackers", indeed. I became so troubled by my own reaction that I added a couple lines of CSS to disable the absolute counter in the corner of every page. That number is toxic. https://imgur.com/a/uPnW7bT
Why not share your CSS?
what do we get at 250 and 500 ?
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Not sure if it still works: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/28820-hacker-news-hide-you...
Oh, this is JavaScript. I was curious to see how ken was doing it with CSS. Thanks though. Your userscript does indeed still work.
Do we really want people chasing karma on here? I'd be tempted to go the other way, and limit the visibility and usefulness of it. I.e., on user profiles just show "between 1-50 karma", "500+ karma".
Given that the content quality here is high, chasing karma could be a good thing, if it encourages additional high-quality, thought-provoking discussion. People should be rewarded for sharing content like that.
This also seems like one of those things where Goodhart's law may apply.
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Not sure if it still works: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/28820-hacker-news-hide-you...
Oh, this is JavaScript. I was curious to see how ken was doing it with CSS. Thanks though. Your userscript does indeed still work.
#hnmain td td:last-child .pagetop {
font-size: 0;
}
#hnmain td td:last-child .pagetop a {
font-size: 10pt;
}
#hnmain td td:last-child .pagetop a:first-child::after {
content: ' | ';
}