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i could care less if you get karma. frankly, you'd deserve it for orchestrating this.
by dustingetz 17y ago
i could care less if you get karma. frankly, you'd deserve it for orchestrating this.
- jacquesm 17y agoKarma doesn't enter in to it, what's the difference between posting a challenge yourself vs mailing someone and having them post it for you and credit you. Seems a bit roundabout without any real advantage. Daniels tag is all it really needs.
- eru 17y agoOh, there's something to be said for having an "official" challenge of the week. It focusses attention. Though on the other hand, having the primaries out in court of HN may be the best approach to picking the most interesting challenges.
- jacquesm 17y agoInformal is cool with me. Someone could just state their challenge, and the prize, if any (which need not be money), and if others think the challenge is interesting enough they could paypal the author their contribution to the pot, or they could publicly state that they want to up the stakes (or both).
- eru 17y agoYes. Probably a common protocol will emerge. Also posting bets and searching for someone to take the other side (or be the arbiter--in case any is needed) could be interesting. Similar to http://www.longbets.org/ http://www.longbets.org/, but embedded into HN and not focussed on long-term bets. Edit: I have opened a new top-level post about this topic. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200153 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200153
- gridspy 17y agoPayment could be in the form of services provided by startups at HN. Subscriptions to our SaaS systems, free products, discounts, etc.
- eru 17y agoSure. Or just bragging rights on some website. (E.g. a small line mentioning the winner on the bottom of HN, for challenges that pg thinks worthy.)