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It seems like it would also inspire a lot of pointless, "I agree!" comments.
by DanielStraight 16y ago
It seems like it would also inspire a lot of pointless, "I agree!" comments.
- brendonjason 16y agoBut that's the point - since a potential poster of "I agree" would be adding no value whatsoever to the discussion, and may perhaps be the kind of person who posts "I agree" on multiple posts just to get points, every time he/she posts "I agree" they would lose out. If you only had 50 words a day, posting "I agree" just cost you 4% of your daily ration of words. So chances are you wouldn't post "I agree" 10x just to try to increase your points. Because YOU NEVER KNOW when a REALLY interesting post that you really, really want to comment on may come along and now you don't have enough words left to make the comment you wanted. Which may inspire some sort of word-ration trading economy aspect to HN, ie, more "involved" people with many points may wish to "trade" points for word "credits" with newbies, thus balancing out the point spread a bit. This would decrease the value of points associated with identities, but increase the value of words, thus making short, brief comments all the more valuable. Maybe. I don't know. It would be a nice experiment I think.