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I think Hacker News is strong supporting evidence of your point. There is some ability to display/leverage social standing here, but by and large, it is a platf
by InfinityX0 16y ago
I think Hacker News is strong supporting evidence of your point. There is some ability to display/leverage social standing here, but by and large, it is a platform of anonymous commenters commenting simply for the pleasure of discussion.
That, and anonymously validating our own intelligence through the karma system - but it seems the prior benefit is a larger pull.
- timinman 16y agoThe karma system has got to be a huge magnet for this kind of discussion.
- blasdel 16y agoThere's even a High Score List: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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- InfinityX0 16y agoI don't think the High Score List really matters - it helps the 1% (estimation) percent of the community that's there, but for the rest of us, it's like trying to achieve the Home Run Record - it's largely a pointless metric. If there was something like "who received the most karma in the last week", then there would be cause for concern/thought that the community would be hurt by such a list.