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Ask HN: Does HN Karma do anything, other than give me dopamine? (in algorithm)
- yasp 8y agoExposes the ability to downvote comments at >500. Seems to give flags and possibly votes more weight.
- gus_massa 8y agoThere are some thresholds to unlock additional abilities. For example, with 200 you can make polls and with 500 you can downvote comments. (The numbers may change.)
- partycoder 8y agoIf anything, karma reflects how many users like your post or comment. They can like it for various reasons, not necessarily support it.
- stephengillie 8y agoThis is true for individual comments. But do we need the "score box" next to our login name? I don't see an option in the settings to make that disappear, and adblocking the div removes a useful link.
- jacob019 8y agoIt give feedback as to whether people feel that your comments contribute positively to the discussion. Not algo but useful.
- _blrj 8y agoIt suppresses opinions that are not widely accepted or favorable and deters irritable tones of voice among other things.
- denkmoon 8y ago> It suppresses opinions that are not widely accepted There definitely is a type of person that revels in negative karma/points/whatever for their "controversial" "opinions".
- opan 8y agoThis is one reason I'm not a big fan of these sorts of karma systems. It's like when social media sites try to re-order the news instead of just showing it in chronological order. This post was popular, so maybe you'll like it too. Just a bit irritating. I think I prefer more traditional forums where the new posts are at the end.
- grawprog 8y agoHaving high karma and highly rated posts won't stop you from being arbitrarily banned for no real reason however.
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- jason_slack 8y agoI think at a certain Karma you can also change your: top bar color. I have mine set to: 9794b6. I think it was at 500 points that I could do this.
- jeanlucas 8y agoFor real? I'm mostly a lurker, now I wanna hit 500 points.
- jason_slack 8y agoA post above thinks it might be 256!
- RpFLCL 8y agoIt may have changed but I remember that being available closer to the 256 point.
- jason_slack 8y agoI don’t recall the number of points needed but I do remember being so excited to be able to change my top bar color.
- jackgolding 8y agoconfirming i have 368 and can change my color
- oever 8y agoWho needs karma when you can use a user.js script?
- jason_slack 8y agoI guess those of us that believe in karma :-)
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- quickthrower2 8y agoI sometimes get dopamine from downvotes. Weird. It's like someone cares enough to say "that's shit".
- laurentl 8y agoI was totally going to give you a dopamine hit but I don't have enough karma to downvote :( Maybe if people like this comment enough ? (/s, if you must ask)
- workaccount34 8y agogimmy some downvotes too
- labster 8y agoAt 1000 karma you unlock the ability to post an occasional /.-worthy +2 Funny comment without worrying about the inevitable downvotes. But really, I do look at people's karma to see if I should take a comment seriously if I'm feeling uncertain about it. People with 2000+ karma are usually worth listening to, even if you don't agree with them.
- workaccount34 8y agopeople with 2k+ karma are nerds.
- veddox 8y agoYes, karma is a good indicator of standing in the HN community :-) High karma shows somebody has been around for a while and is known for substantive comments.
- mrgreenfur 8y agoI'm opening a hn karma for karma trade marketplace to help us unionize commenting.
- LinuxBender 8y agoHere are the lesser documented features [1] of HN. [1] - https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
- blahblahblahw 8y agoIt's great for reinforcing group-think and confirming certain trendy biases.