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Ask YC: Should we raise the karma threshold for creating polls?
Or how about you have to buy them for 50 points a pop?
- robg 19y agoNah. If they're valued they'll get upvoted.
- rms 19y agoShouldn't this be a poll?
- inklesspen 19y agoHe hasn't got the karma. :D
- robg 19y agoMaybe add the votes to the post total though? It seems folks are voting in the poll but forgetting to upvote. For instance, right now, if 20 people vote in a poll, it seems like it would be interesting to the rest of the community. Plus, isn't a vote in the poll a marker of interest in said poll?
- dfranke 19y agoThat's absurd. If they have to be that strongly discouraged, they shouldn't exist at all.
- procrastitron 19y ago"they shouldn't exist at all." I think this version works much better.
- izak30 19y agoI really like the idea of polls, I think that they would get a better idea of where people stood with actions then just their votes for a good idea (where do you host is one that immediately comes to mind) (do you have funding) (how many startups have you been involved in that have failed) ..mostly I'd like to get some stats on the community in general, and polls are a good way to do it... As for the karma idea, I think polls are more valuable to newbies than many others, so a karma threshold may not be the right answer.
- flyhighplato 19y agoKinda. I think putting a poll should involve spending some karma points. If a poll cost 50-100 karma points to create, anyone who posts a poll would make sure they were interesting.
- mdemare 19y agoAlso, it would be fun if karma were actually good for something.
- randrews 19y agoYou're not spending 50 karma, you're investing it. If your poll gets 51 upvotes, it was worth it.
- aston 19y agoThat's actually not quite true. Over some limit (maybe around 20), upvotes stop counting directly to karma.