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I was wondering about the consequences of introducing some kind of a supervisor system on HN. So practically every new/low-karma HN-member will be assigned to a

by ujal 16y ago

I was wondering about the consequences of introducing some kind of a supervisor system on HN. So practically every new/low-karma HN-member will be assigned to a high-karma HN-member. Every submission and/or voting needs then to be approved by a supervisor. This would imply more work for high-karma members but I am sure they would love to contribute to the quality here on HN.

jashmenn 16y ago
But then we end up like Digg, right? And then who is watching the watchmen? If you give a super-user more weight then you're just increasing the potential power of a "corrupt" super-user.
- ujal 16y ago
  I am not speaking about a longer period, you could 'graduate' in a couple of days. Apart from that one could easily detect if such a corruption takes place. For example a story that gets not approved but gets enough points and is submitted by someone else could be evidence for such a corruption. The one who has not approved the story could get minus points.
btilly 16y ago
I would pity whatever high-karma HN-member got assigned me when I was new. I suspect the relationship would have irritated both sides very quickly, likely leading to me not having gotten involved in the first place. Now that I'm a relatively high-karma member, I'm quite sure that I wouldn't want to have such a responsibility. I spend quite a bit of time here, sure, but in bursts. You can't rely on me to respond to anything within a day. And that lag time is inappropriate for how the site works.
- ujal 16y ago
  There are for sure lots of potential technical methods to overcome the relationship problem. One of these would be assigning random high-karma users everytime someone submits a link. Same goes for the time lag issue. You could assign only high-karma users who are currently browsing the site. In the end you could always opt-out.

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I was wondering about the consequences of introducing some kind of a supervisor system on HN. So practically every new/low-karma HN-member will be assigned to a

by ujal 16y ago

jashmenn 16y ago
But then we end up like Digg, right? And then who is watching the watchmen? If you give a super-user more weight then you're just increasing the potential power of a "corrupt" super-user.
- ujal 16y ago
  I am not speaking about a longer period, you could 'graduate' in a couple of days. Apart from that one could easily detect if such a corruption takes place. For example a story that gets not approved but gets enough points and is submitted by someone else could be evidence for such a corruption. The one who has not approved the story could get minus points.
btilly 16y ago
I would pity whatever high-karma HN-member got assigned me when I was new. I suspect the relationship would have irritated both sides very quickly, likely leading to me not having gotten involved in the first place. Now that I'm a relatively high-karma member, I'm quite sure that I wouldn't want to have such a responsibility. I spend quite a bit of time here, sure, but in bursts. You can't rely on me to respond to anything within a day. And that lag time is inappropriate for how the site works.
- ujal 16y ago
  There are for sure lots of potential technical methods to overcome the relationship problem. One of these would be assigning random high-karma users everytime someone submits a link. Same goes for the time lag issue. You could assign only high-karma users who are currently browsing the site. In the end you could always opt-out.