Ask PG: will disabling upvotes on the front page reduce hype stories? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask PG: will disabling upvotes on the front page reduce hype stories?

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Post by malandrew » Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 5:05 AM UTC

Alternatively, how about a karma threshold to be able to upvote stories on the front-page? Make it the same threshold as downvoting, 500.

This should go a long way to prevent the redditification of HN.

If you aren't a committed participating member of the community, you don't get to push things to the top of the fron page as easily. It should also help a lot with sock puppetry, since it would not be trivial to create accounts to push things to the front page.

Re: Ask PG: will disabling upvotes on the front page reduce hype stories?

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Post by malandrew » Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 5:11 AM UTC

anywhichway wrote: post #4

I'm currently using an android app to browse HN which uses the hn api. No matter how you change the api there would be no real way of preventing app makers from allowing upvoting from their main story browsing page.

Unless you only allow voting based on reputation like downvoting privelages, which is something that can be validated server side.

Re: Ask PG: will disabling upvotes on the front page reduce hype stories?

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Post by pearjuice » Sat, Aug 24, 2013, 4:02 PM UTC

Just disable users to view their and other people their karma totals because the only thing it does is promoting the writing and submitting of content for the common denominator just to collect karma points.