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Surely the whole idea is flawed. It's as useful as internet polls are. Once any site like digg/reddit/etc gets big enough to be worth gaming, it will be gamed.
by points 16y ago
Surely the whole idea is flawed. It's as useful as internet polls are.
Once any site like digg/reddit/etc gets big enough to be worth gaming, it will be gamed.
- adrianwaj 16y agoYes, and welcome to planet Earth. HN is moderated manually and automatically. Paypal is ruthlessly policed. Both have resulting unpleasant stories. Security is vigilance and striking a balance between many things. On HN, what interests me are Top Comments, how about you?
- points 16y agoEven top comments are often just appealing to lowest common denominator, current fashion, etc Democracy, and 1 vote per person is just a flawed system. Thankfully there is a fair bit of dictatorship on HN which keeps things fairly sane.
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- yoasif_ 16y ago>Democracy, and 1 vote per person is just a flawed system. Thankfully there is a fair bit of dictatorship on HN which keeps things fairly sane. I agree, and this is where reddit, for instance fails. Once quippd gains a userbase that is interested in trolling and posting bad comments, we plan to implement a slashdot style moderation system (still the best moderation system out there, imo).