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nickb is by far the most prolific submitter. many great article everyday are submitted by him, and users like him who use a bookmarklet to quickly add links fro
by joeguilmette 19y ago
nickb is by far the most prolific submitter. many great article everyday are submitted by him, and users like him who use a bookmarklet to quickly add links from their RSS feed.
your method, while interesting, would put an end to users like him...
perhaps the games and such would be a better idea if they were related to a user's class. for instance if someone had stronger verbal skills, their submissions may have a higher weight, or something like that.
- iamdave 19y agoWe have an incredibly diverse community of people here. Using that kind of system would ostensibly create a disparity between users who have the capacity for such skill tests, and those who don't. We'd have a giant rift, lapses of communication and before you know it, HN will have turned into Reddit. And I'm very certain if that happens I'll probably hurt myself.
- joeguilmette 19y agoi thought we were having a hypothetical discussion about social news sites in general.