So you "just need a hacker", huh?

Post by LMG » Sun, Dec 07, 2008, 4:23 AM UTC

t0pj wrote: post #89

pg wrote: post #44

This would be better if the half that consists of mere insults was replaced with some ideas. There's a lot more you could say about this phenomenon, like why it happens, and what the solution might be. Once again the top story is an embarrassment to News.YC. And unfortunately it is mostly the recently arrived users who voted it up. Maybe it's inevitable that I'll have to turn on some form of vote weighting.

Perhaps keeping tabs on how karma is used. Are the recently arrived users simply voting up articles yet not adding any comments of their own to explain why they've voted up? How about this? If a person votes up an article (which costs a point), a contributing comment by the same person can start out at 2 points instead of 1. You're basically paying back the point taken to vote up an article. This would give more ince…

Post by dirtyrevenge » Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 5:57 AM UTC