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I think the upvoter should remain karma neutral. That keeps a steady flow of karma currency entering the system, which is necessary when the primary mechanism
by imron 11y ago
I think the upvoter should remain karma neutral. That keeps a steady flow of karma currency entering the system, which is necessary when the primary mechanism for filtering and ranking interesting content is upvoting.
If you penalise users for doing that, they'll do less of it, which will make the ranking/filtering less effective.
- jacquesm 11y agoThe writing of good comments and the submission of good links will already do that.
- imron 11y agoNot to nearly the same level. Like any major site, I would guess the majority of HN readers do not comment, or only comment rarely. Losing karma for upvoting means you need to comment if you want to upvote, and I suspect many readers will simply choose not to participate in either activity rather than try to maintain a positive karma balance.