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Karma, I admit is a bit of a game mechanic to me. I get really excited when I pick up a point or two. However, I am also new around here, and thus have not accu
by Rhapso 16y ago
Karma, I admit is a bit of a game mechanic to me. I get really excited when I pick up a point or two. However, I am also new around here, and thus have not accumulated enough to make it not exciting.
- Rhapso 16y agointeresting, commenting about not having much karma got me a karma point! -does a happy game mechanic induced dance- I had been reading HN for about a year before making an account, and honestly I think it is one of the "nicest" communities online I have yet to find, and I think the self-regulating ability of 'karma' is part of that.
- sqrt17 16y agoKarma is really a "black swan" thing: sometimes you get one or two points, sometimes you lose a point because people don't agree with you and downvote you, and once in a while you post something totally innocuous (but potentially well-informed) and suddenly they're all over your post and you get as more upvotes than for all these carefully-formulated snippets of distilled thought. The community quality is, IMO, helped by the fact that there are dictatorial interventions to prune the few trolls that can survive in a karma-based community. (The legend is that some people are made to live in their own editorial padded cell where their HN posts can only ever be seen by themselves).
- winthrowe 16y agoThe legend is true. I've seen them. You can choose to 'showdead' in your options.