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If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit My account is close to 700 days old and I still wou
by froo 17y ago
If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit
My account is close to 700 days old and I still wouldn't submit comments regarding that. I consider myself fairly new with respect to HN
- wlievens 17y agoDitto, at over a thousand days. But I'm not a terribly active poster.
- jasonlotito 17y agoYou're not missing much. I've learned that karma is not about the quality of the post, but about how much time you're willing to commit to posting. People with high karma merely post a lot. That doesn't mean they aren't saying interesting things, but it doesn't mean they are saying interesting things either. Also, I see far too many people repeating the same thing without anything new. It's far to easy to take the popular way out, preach to the choir, and get the karma votes. Finally, when I do stumble on something and consider sharing it, I usually find it was submitted. In this case, I don't bother resubmitting. It's always amusing when I see the article resubmitted and on the front page days later, with a wittier/more intelligent headline, but oh well.
- duck 17y agoI don't think a new headline will make it re-submit, it is based on the URL.
- jasonlotito 17y agoSorry, I should have been more clear. It's not just the headline. It's also putting a blog post in front of the actual article. Their is a term for that I can't think of at the moment. Hopefully you're smarter then me and understand what I'm saying. =)
- ErrantX 17y agoIn general I think "local karma" in a thread is quite indicative of comment quality (with some exceptions). Global Karma is somewhat linked to activity though, agreed.
- stcredzero 17y agoOne could make karma = "local karma." Just make one's karma an average of recent posts.
- jasonlotito 17y agoThat's true, and I hadn't really thought of it that way. And of course, I was focusing on Global Karma. =)
- c1sc0 17y agoI just noticed my account will roll over to 1111 days tomorrow & I still don't consider myself a real part of the community. What I've learned from my bout of extreme lurking on this board is that these kinds of discussions pop up every few months and every time HN seems to auto-correct. No worries. We'll be fine.
- mdg 17y agoYes. In fact, I'm not even sure what prompted it this time around. I am not sure why these posts even show up.