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I think the solution to this is to have no Karma on submitted stories. If karma comes only from useful comments then I'd posit that the user will be more inves
by chollida1 16y ago
I think the solution to this is to have no Karma on submitted stories.
If karma comes only from useful comments then I'd posit that the user will be more invested in discusion and not as likely to down vote others.
- vaksel 16y agonot really, since that will put a lot of emphasis on comments, so downvoting someone would hurt them even more
- chollida1 16y agoI don't see your argument. My point is if you remove karma for submitted stories you only get people who earned the right to downvote via well thought out comments. My hypothesis is that these are the type of people who are more likely to counter a point they disagree with, with a well thought out comment, rather than a downvote, as that's how they got the karma they have to begin with.
- terrym 16y agoDoesn't every comment start with 1 point, though? People trying to game the system could still do so simply by commenting a lot (maybe on older, less visible submissions that won't get them down-votes). Maybe every comment should start at 0 points?
- kranner 16y agoI believe you don't actually earn a point until someone upvotes you away from that default 1.
- doki_pen 16y agoI agree. One thing that bothers me about the karma on stories system is that an extremely popular story gets you an absurd amount of karma. But the thing about extremely popular stories is that they would have been posted by someone else if you didn't post them. So it's really a huge reward for simply being quicker then other users. On the other hand, and obscure story that get's on the board for a few hours, and that no one else would have posted gets much less points. Perhaps stories that make the front page for X amount of time should earn a standard rate of karma for the submitter. Or even just a limit, say you can't get more then 10 karma on a submission.