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Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Post by jrockway »

felixc wrote: post #37

If people would just stop caring about meaningless numbers displayed next to your username, the world would be a better place. Specifically, the world of community-moderated sites wouldn't have to put up with crap submissions that exist solely to gather up-votes.

What makes you think that karma is meaningless? I find it meaningful.

Sometimes I read a troll-like post, and check out the user that wrote it. If they have 3000 karma, it is likely that I am missing their point, and need to think some more. If they have -10 karma, then they are probably just a troll.

I know it's "bad" to judge someone by a number... but we do it because it is usually helpful.

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Post by felixc »

jrockway wrote: post #41
felixc wrote: post #37

If people would just stop caring about meaningless numbers displayed next to your username, the world would be a better place. Specifically, the world of community-moderated sites wouldn't have to put up with crap submissions that exist solely to gather up-votes.

What makes you think that karma is meaningless? I find it meaningful. Sometimes I read a troll-like post, and check out the user that wrote it. If they have 3000 karma, it is likely that I am missing their point, and need to think some more. If they have -10 karma, then they are probably just a troll. I know it's "bad" to judge someone by a number... but we do it because it is usually helpful.

What you describe is the intended, valid use of the metric. What I am complaining about is people who care on a personal level about what their own karma is, and who do things just to inflate that number. Facebook/Myspace "friends" whom you don't actually know? "Vote up if *" posts? Lolcat or comic or whatever posts? I know HN is (mostly) blissfully free of these things, but they are a direct consequence of the karma system.

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Post by tdavis »

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #2

You are not your job. You are not your online profiles. You are not your YC karma. But hey, that shouldn't stop you from displaying it... Sister "Profiles" Widget: http://duckduckgo.com/profiles.html Live examples: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/

Luckily for my ego, I am also not how much money I have in the bank. Or the contents of my wallet.

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

#46

Post by gleb »

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #32
jonnytran wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real kicker here is that he's giving people incentive to group together all their profiles across the web, allowing Duck Duck Go to search people better than anyone else. That's genius!

This gives me a bit too much foresight credit. Honestly, I got the idea for these widgets after seeing one too many comments like this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=379936 . I agree with that thread that your YC karma isn't too useful on other sites, but then I realized it would be useful to display on your own sites. So I got to building it... I quickly realized that there is karma on other sites, and it…

Beautiful link bait. Seriously, it's a really clever idea. Fortunately/unfortunately Google frowns on link bait unrelated to the core business of your site: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/widgetbait-gone-wild so this is definitely somewhere in the gray SEO area.

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

#47

Post by trezor »

lst wrote: post #40

All of you high karma folks around: 'Karma' is a quite recent invention, in fact it dates only a few years back. Everything growing so fast is always exposed to dissolve in even less time...

Err no.

Slashdot had karma-points long before they shifted to simply "Good" or "Excellent" and stuff like that.

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Post by swombat »

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #32
jonnytran wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real kicker here is that he's giving people incentive to group together all their profiles across the web, allowing Duck Duck Go to search people better than anyone else. That's genius!

This gives me a bit too much foresight credit. Honestly, I got the idea for these widgets after seeing one too many comments like this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=379936 . I agree with that thread that your YC karma isn't too useful on other sites, but then I realized it would be useful to display on your own sites. So I got to building it... I quickly realized that there is karma on other sites, and it…

You know, what I would love and use right away on some of my blogs is a similar widget but that allows me to include voting badges - particularly one that uses that script that came out a while ago to detect whether the user is logged in those voting sites and displays them only if they are.

That would be one heckuva handy widget!... does it exist anywhere?

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

#49

Post by epi0Bauqu »

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #34
epi0Bauqu wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Noted. Thought about both, but didn't see an easy way to integrate, so put off. Anyone know of any easy way? Feedburner seems only to serve images of the #, and FB seems to require auth.

Here's the way for Feedburner: http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=Hack...

Unfortunately, this returns 0 for most feeds right now, and is apparently a known bug: http://groups.google.com/group/feedburner-for-developers/bro...

I will add Feedburner when they fix this (I hope soon).

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

#50

Post by lst »

trezor wrote: post #47
lst wrote: post #40

All of you high karma folks around: 'Karma' is a quite recent invention, in fact it dates only a few years back. Everything growing so fast is always exposed to dissolve in even less time...

Err no. Slashdot had karma-points long before they shifted to simply "Good" or "Excellent" and stuff like that.

How 'old' is internet itself? Not more than the mentioned 'few' years.

Really important (and great) things grow slowly and die slowly.

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