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I think that people spend a LOT of time obsessing over karma and rankings/ratings. This includes not only obsession with gaining karma, but obsession with how to better measure, display or distribute/earn karma points. What I would personally prefer to see is someone present a valid, (semi)tested proposal for a better system. There have been a lot of threads withe what I personally consider to be vague half-suggestio…
No I don't. I just tell everyone how I feel and when I need to top up on Karma I just post a pg related article...>:)
I don't care about Karma. Mostly. One day I noticed that I had about 180 karma and decided to try for 250 so I could change the colour of the Navbar. After clearing 250 (and changing the color to a nice soothing green vs the default orange), I find I don't really care about Karma. A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. - Napoleon
Post-wise, I have some gripes with the way karma works, in that your high-value comment can easily go ignored because it starts off at the bottom of a well-populated thread. Which, for karma-gamers, means it makes more sense to reply to a comment with high karma to increase the visibility of your comment rather than starting a new comment thread. And it also means that your average karma per post doesn't necessarily reflect your average value per post.
I'd love if social news were more like an RPG where you could "level up" to get more features, customizations and other things I can't think of. Last I knew, users with 250 karma were allowed to change the color of the nav bar at the top.
I didn't know hacker news added silly features based on karma. How pathetic.
Slashdot had the right idea when you were limited to one post a day (or whatever) when your karma got to -10. If you can't write content that other people enjoy, you need to leave or adjust your attitude. Karma is a way of making people feel bad enough to go away :)
The more people we can encourage to stay on /b/, the better... 'cause I really don't care to read that drivel, but I do care to read what people think about programming-related things.
Yes, I care, as a form of trust metric: For the person: it is a simplest way to see if you fit or not in this community. For the community: quickly judge if the post or comment is spam or not.
To illustrate another subtle point. Lets, take your karma and compare it with mine and compare mine with someone like nickb. Now what conclusions can I draw about whether I fit into this community.