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Fix HN by tying karma to upvotes.

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Re: Fix HN by tying karma to upvotes.

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Post by jaredsohn »

justjimmy wrote: post #20

Here's an idea: Have karma and voting tied together. Your Karma is basically how much votes you get to give. If someone makes a good post, people upvote it, spending their precious karma. The person made the post, collects the karma and and they can use it to vote other posts. We can limit karma by having new users start off with 0. And they only way they can vote/get karma is to contribute positively with quality ar…

I like this idea but I think it is also necessary to show "total karma received", which is equivalent to what we think of as karma today. Otherwise, people are incentivized to hoard their karma to boost their reputation.

Re: Fix HN by tying karma to upvotes.

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Post by andrewfelix »

apedley wrote: post #16

Is this more trying to stop HN changing and keeping it the same rather than letting it adapt with the times? The more people that come to HN the more diverse the topics (within the hackersphere). HN will bring up the most relevant to the majority of the users (mostly). Maybe the articles brought up today are what most of the users are looking for, which is now what you aren't looking for. Keeping with the old ways, k…

This is about trying to stop HN becoming reddit or God forbid youtube. Where there are some great comments and submissions coupled with an overwhelming sea of bullshit. This is about trying to incentivise meaningful comments and submissions.

I don't want to see HN get to the point where interesting posts and comments get lost in a whirlpool of css tricks, poor attempts at humour and thinly veiled trolling.

There doesn't seem to be a whole lot stopping that from happening at the moment except for the fragile karma system.

Re: Fix HN by tying karma to upvotes.

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Post by andrewfelix »

justjimmy wrote: post #20

Here's an idea: Have karma and voting tied together. Your Karma is basically how much votes you get to give. If someone makes a good post, people upvote it, spending their precious karma. The person made the post, collects the karma and and they can use it to vote other posts. We can limit karma by having new users start off with 0. And they only way they can vote/get karma is to contribute positively with quality ar…

Great idea. The commodification of karma.

Re: Fix HN by tying karma to upvotes.

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Post by jordhy »

justjimmy wrote: post #20

Here's an idea: Have karma and voting tied together. Your Karma is basically how much votes you get to give. If someone makes a good post, people upvote it, spending their precious karma. The person made the post, collects the karma and and they can use it to vote other posts. We can limit karma by having new users start off with 0. And they only way they can vote/get karma is to contribute positively with quality ar…

This is a great idea. Makes people more mindful of their voting. A good addition might be to tie a similar system to submissions. Doing so could boost quality of content and reduce the noise in submissions.

Re: Fix HN by tying karma to upvotes.

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Post by adrianwaj »

eof wrote: post #5

Something I have thought about is giving more weight to rare-voters. My HN karma is easily 50x the number of votes I have ever given, up or down. But when I do vote, I really mean it . This is somewhat a problem though if I never vote but happen to vote my buddies post because he is my friend; so maybe it wouldn't work. To your idea; instead of giving a 4-1 ratio from high-to-low voters; I would propose something lik…

Could also weight submission upvotes where the story is clicked and factor rarity between subs, upvotes and downvotes.
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