11–20 of 23 posts
Perhaps soon I will release my karmaBot (tm), it subscribes to the rss feeds of programming.reddit.com, techcrunch, and xkcd, and auto reposts all stories to news.yc We will soon takeover the world! ! !! ! muahahahahaha
Earlier quoted context omitted.
fair enough, I have worked hard for my massive 96 score and if I lost it I would be a little sad :p
good point. i only have 70pts so i feel for this. maybe the total accumulated points of all time are also kept. YC doesn't erase any data. its just writing a new database query. old query: Points = "select count(votes) where user.id = 123" new method: "select votes, date where user.id = 123" and do some heuristic magic in the model or results datastructure.
Kierkegaard did his studies more than 150 years ago, maybe it's time to use his findings in our life.
I think people think that pg will look at your YC application differently if you have a high karma on the site. I have no idea if that's true (never applied) but some people have said that they had high karma and didn't get accepted. So YMMV.
I'd worry more about my app, idea, biz plan than to worry about karma when applying. I doubt pg will accept you just because you contribute to n.yc.
what's the point of this voting stuff ? Kierkegaard did his studies more than 150 years ago, maybe it's time to use his findings in our life.
Just to add a different voice to the matter, I don't subscribe by this philosophy. I don't care about my karma points and its existence doesn't affect my motivation to participate. I upvote in appreciation, and post to share. It's the crowd, and the crowd's ideas, that matter. I don't use the leaderboard at all, and in that sense, it is "utterly meaningless" to me whether it disappears or not.
I think people put too much importance on karma. Personally, I don't really care. I check my RSS feeds 3 times a day (when I have breaks) and I post stuff I find interesting. It literally takes a second to contribute to n.yc (hint: look into bookmarklet link) so why not help a site that I like? So yes, I've accumulated a lot of points. I haven't checked the score in weeks but I assume I'm still in the lead but if pg…
this post had nothing to do with getting into YC funding, the funding cycle reset idea was simply a suggestion of adequate time to reset.
for the record, i am not applying to YC next cycle or any other cycle. just wanted to help the site.
Karma Decay Function Everyday everyone's karma gets multiplied by n where 0<n<1. (0.9 seems good)
I'm planning multiple lists ranked by different criteria. For now it will be off the Lists link at the bottom of the page. The problem is not as urgent as you might think, though. In a site that's growing, you get a de facto karma decay, because a top submission gets more points than it would have 6 months ago.
I'd also like to see a weighted score something like (karma from posts) / (1+log10(total number of words in posts)).