Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo

When I see stories like this I wish there was some way on Hacker News that I could spend some of my karma points to give this story more than one up vote.

Re: Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo

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Post by Talanes » Mon, May 18, 2020, 5:38 AM UTC

inetsee wrote: post #4

When I see stories like this I wish there was some way on Hacker News that I could spend some of my karma points to give this story more than one up vote.

As someone who's still internalized pre-voting internet discussions, and just reads things without voting 99% of the time, I saw your comment and upvoted. Some real karma for you :)

Re: Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo

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Post by pwdisswordfish2 » Mon, May 18, 2020, 5:47 AM UTC

oh_sigh wrote: post #3

blendo wrote: post #2

I have great respect for the Navajo and Hopi people of Arizona and New Mexico.

I have great respect for the Scottish people of Scotland.

I see what you did there.

Re: Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo

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Post by pwdisswordfish2 » Mon, May 18, 2020, 5:54 AM UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn0QH-khhr8

Re: Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo

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Post by Abishek_Muthian » Mon, May 18, 2020, 6:16 AM UTC

Talanes wrote: post #5

inetsee wrote: post #4

When I see stories like this I wish there was some way on Hacker News that I could spend some of my karma points to give this story more than one up vote.

As someone who's still internalized pre-voting internet discussions, and just reads things without voting 99% of the time, I saw your comment and upvoted. Some real karma for you :)

I run a problem validation forum[1] where I'm experimenting with the karma system; one can donate karma to 'Down Vote' but not for an 'Up Vote'.

'Up Vote' privileges requires minimal karma(2), 'Down Vote' privileges are rather high(20).

Karma is visible only to the owner and the moderators.

Rationale being, people shouldn't be discouraged to post their problems however small or trivial it may sound and others to share possible ideas to solve that problem or existing solutions without any prejudice.

Ofcourse this raises the issue of people not willing to part their karma to maintain forum sanctity, but as of now that's manageable when compared to discouragement from down votes.

[1]https://needgap.com

Re: Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo

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Post by 1cvmask » Mon, May 18, 2020, 6:18 AM UTC

Hear is another similar story with a twist from English royalty:

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/generous-turkish-...

Re: Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo

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Post by MattGaiser » Mon, May 18, 2020, 6:41 AM UTC

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #8

Talanes wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who's still internalized pre-voting internet discussions, and just reads things without voting 99% of the time, I saw your comment and upvoted. Some real karma for you :)

I run a problem validation forum[1] where I'm experimenting with the karma system; one can donate karma to 'Down Vote' but not for an 'Up Vote'. 'Up Vote' privileges requires minimal karma(2), 'Down Vote' privileges are rather high(20). Karma is visible only to the owner and the moderators. Rationale being, people shouldn't be discouraged to post their problems however small or trivial it may sound and others to shar…

> Ofcourse this raises the issue of people not willing to part their karma to maintain forum sanctity, but as of now that's manageable when compared to discouragement from down votes.

Not a problem on Stack Overflow. And the website is a neat concept too.