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The simple public karma system used by Reddit/HN is pretty bad. HN even lump comment and submit karma contexts. I think an algorithm like PageRank would be bet
by necrecious 17y ago
The simple public karma system used by Reddit/HN is pretty bad. HN even lump comment and submit karma contexts.
I think an algorithm like PageRank would be better. Each user has an authority rank and voting up or down content produced by another user confers authority to the other user.
Of course you also need to detect people gaming the system through things like link farms, but there are years of experience on how to do that from search engines. The incentive to have top karma is also worth much less money, so users wouldn't spend too much time gaming it.
- pmichaud 17y agoBad maybe, but there is something powerful about the inconsistent reward when posting then waiting to see how much karma the comment gathered. It's addictive in the same sense that checking e-mail is addictive.