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Username checks out.
I see this kind of comments quite often - what is the point checking out the username? Is an underground internet meme i’ve been missing? (No native English speaker here)
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I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
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Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
#72So basically you used unethical trickery to cheat yourself 10k meaningless internet points? You also shoehorned AI into the story so you could generate some meaningless internet points with the impressionable youth on Hacker News, too? How about you do something meaningful and ethical with AI instead. Then you might even earn an upvote from me.
Aw, please don't flame people this here. It's not sporting and not in the intended spirit of the site.
Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
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> even if you disagree with the content yeah, the intention was good, but that's not how it works, unfortunately.
I get unreasonably annoyed at seeing posts get downvoted just because they don’t fit the mainstream opinion, especially if the author clearly put in a lot of effort to articulate their views. Bonus points if there are zero replies too. Anyone who downvotes like that is just lazy, close minded and cowardly. It’s sad that it happens so often.
Yeah, I tend to upvote in this situation, even when I disagree.
Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
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>But it did make me think about just how easy it is to farm karma on Reddit, and how useless it is as a proxy for "trust" or "reputation" or anything other than what it is - fake internet points. I have to say, do people really take karma, upvotes, credit, fake internet points etc. As a measure of trustworthiness? I know reddit pushes this idea but do people actually participating in communities with point systems se…
"Trust" in this context means that you can be more certain that there is a real person with a certain level of time investment and legitimate intent behind the account. Compare that to an new account whose only purpose is to post an ad before getting banned. Karma thresholds are highly effective spam filters.
> Karma thresholds are highly effective spam filters.
And that's the reason why a lot of sites sell high karma accounts, whether those were hijacked, or karma farmed farmed for that purpose. People can make quite a few bucks if they find an effective way to farm it.
Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
#75Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
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The highest threshold for unlocking features HN is at 501 karma (comment downvoting), which is not a lot and is mostly there to limit abuse. More importantly, it doesn't affect the submission ranking algorithm at all.
I hear that if you reach rank 50 or above on the HN leaderboard you gain the ability to have your posts appear with in rainbow colours but those who have it are too wise to use this power. More seriously these posts got me interested in what features besides downvoting would be added at various karma levels which led me to your git page on the topic. Linked here for others interested: https://github.com/minimaxir/hac…
I appreciated your joke because the latest trend I hate about reddit are the party-parrot-esque avatars. I immediately scroll them off the screen, couldn't care less what they have to say. (I say this as a lover of the party parrot, but, time & place people...)
Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
#77A couple of years back, it was announced that the trailer for one of the new Star Wars movies would debut during halftime of Monday Night Football. There's always a rush to post stuff like links to new movie trailers "first" on Reddit, so as to get the most fake internet points. I guessed that the trailer would probably get added to the Star Wars YouTube page at around the same time it aired on TV, so I wrote a scrip…
Are HN karma points fake too? I hope not
> I hope not
Why?
Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
#78A couple of years back, it was announced that the trailer for one of the new Star Wars movies would debut during halftime of Monday Night Football. There's always a rush to post stuff like links to new movie trailers "first" on Reddit, so as to get the most fake internet points. I guessed that the trailer would probably get added to the Star Wars YouTube page at around the same time it aired on TV, so I wrote a scrip…
>But it did make me think about just how easy it is to farm karma on Reddit, and how useless it is as a proxy for "trust" or "reputation" or anything other than what it is - fake internet points. I have to say, do people really take karma, upvotes, credit, fake internet points etc. As a measure of trustworthiness? I know reddit pushes this idea but do people actually participating in communities with point systems se…
You get karma for posting pithy and non-controversial (pessimists might say groupthink agreeable) comments or posts.
As much as everyone claims the system is for rewarding on topic discussion, in reality it is used to award points to people who echo whatever is popular and to put wrong think at the bottom.
Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
#79A couple of years back, it was announced that the trailer for one of the new Star Wars movies would debut during halftime of Monday Night Football. There's always a rush to post stuff like links to new movie trailers "first" on Reddit, so as to get the most fake internet points. I guessed that the trailer would probably get added to the Star Wars YouTube page at around the same time it aired on TV, so I wrote a scrip…
>But it did make me think about just how easy it is to farm karma on Reddit, and how useless it is as a proxy for "trust" or "reputation" or anything other than what it is - fake internet points. I have to say, do people really take karma, upvotes, credit, fake internet points etc. As a measure of trustworthiness? I know reddit pushes this idea but do people actually participating in communities with point systems se…
On Reddit it depends on how the karma was obtained.
Example questions:
- Did they gain all their karma in one post, or was it gradual? Gradual karma is better because it implies that they're probably not a troll.
- Did their karma come from the current subreddit or a different one? Just because you have karma from a popular sub doesn't mean you're a good contributor to a niche sub.
- How frequently are they downvoted? Frequent negative karma in even-handed subreddits is a bad sign.
- Does the user have good reputation in related subreddits?
So it's usually not the number that matters, but the context around that number and how it came to be. That said, usually these things only matter when a user is misbehaving: if you're a mod you need to know whether they're having a bad day, or if they have a history of breaking rules and trolling.
Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai
#80As someone that got a photo of a grizzly in the wild. It was surprisingly easy. Here's how you can do it too. For probably under 1k. 1. Fly out to Anchorage, Alaska 2. Drive to Denali visitor center, (Denali State Park) 3. Take the Bus to Denali (~$50) You are almost guaranteed to see a wild grizzlies along the way. The bus will stop so you can take a photo. You can even get off and go for a hike if you like. They wi…
> For probably under 1k.
1. Fly out to Anchorage, Alaska
You are greatly underestimating that cost